Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China: With a Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains<br><br>Is. W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain before the Present Dynasty, Nos. 33, 80, 18.<br><br>With the sole exception of the Nanfeng ware, and a portion of that from Linch'uan, produced during the Yiian dynasty, none of which seems to have survived to the present day, but which is described as having been decorated with flowers coarsely painted under the glaze, I can find nothing in the works Of Chinese writers on this subject to justify the concession of a greater antiquity than the early part Of the Ming dynasty - that is, the first half of the fifteenth century to the ornamentation of vases with arabesques and scroll work, with land scapes, historical scenes, or genre paintings in several colors.<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.