Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: April, 1913<br><br>The earliest piece of Canton enamel in the collections is a large bowl. Of the K'ang-hsi reign, with a plain powder blue ground. The Ch'ien-lung period is represented by numerous fine examples, including a graceful tea - pot with deep rose ground, and a bowl with pink ground decorated with dragons in green and brown (see small cut). Many other pieces, such as are usually attributed in museum collections to the period from 1736 to 1820, are of later date, extending into the middle of the nineteenth century, such as that numerous class of objects decorated with floral designs in polychrome on dark blue. These collections will be more fully treated in a handbook on the Museum enamels, which is now in course of preparation. E. A. B.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.