Square Bottle with Iron Red Flowers on Apple Green, Gorer Plate 1911
€ 165
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1911
Mapmaker / artist
Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker
Publisher
Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, London
Coloring
Printed color
Sheet size
31 × 24 cm (12.2 × 9.4 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14405-1-35
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Even age toning. Handling soiling along the bottom edge. Scattered light foxing in the margin. All four corners complete. One larger brown mark.
About this sheet
An original antique color plate from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, this sheet shows a square bottle vase on an apple green ground with the flowers of the four seasons in iron red. Each framed side has aubergine and green rocks at its edges, from which the season flowers rise in brilliant rouge de fer among birds and insects, with the sun in the sky. Groups of red roses on trees rising from rocks run round the neck, and the authors single out the strength of the red. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Ming period and record it as from the collection formed by Richard Bennett; height 19 3/8 inches (49 cm), width 5 7/8 inches (15 cm).
Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker brought out Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones in 1911 through Bernard Quaritch, the New Bond Street bookseller, in an edition of one thousand numbered copies. The two volumes carry two hundred and fifty four color plates, each a full page photographic reproduction of a single piece or group, with a tissue guard and a facing description in English and French. The plates are color collotypes, and the book records that it was produced and printed by the Menpes Printing and Engraving Company of London and Watford.
The plates were made while large collections of Chinese porcelain were being formed in Britain and America, and the text names the collections that held many of the pieces illustrated, among them those of P. A. B. Widener, George Salting and Richard Bennett.
Even age toning. Handling soiling along the bottom edge. Scattered light foxing in the margin. All four corners complete. One larger brown mark.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
