Taoist Trinity, Three Shang Ti Figures with Jade Tablets, Antique Plate 1911
€ 195
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
24 × 31 cm (9.4 × 12.2 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14405-1-84
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. All four corners complete.
About this sheet
This antique color plate is Plate 84 of Gorer and Blacker's Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, 1911. It shows a group of three seated figures of the Shang Ti, the Taoist trinity, each holding a hieratic jade tablet. The figures come from one mold and differ only in color, each with a Tibetan style coronet with black jewels and capes and robes in brocaded green, yellow and aubergine. The stands have green ice crackle grounds with flowers and triangular carpets. Gorer and Blacker describe the group as late Ming or early Kang-he period and record it in the collection of Henry Hirsch; height 11 1/4 inches (28 cm), breadth 5 1/8 inches (13 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. All four corners complete.
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.
