Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: An Account of the Potter's Art in China from Primitive Times to the Present Day (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Robert Lockhart Hobson ]

＜p＞WHEN we consider the great extent of the Chinese Empire and its teeming populationーboth of them larger than those of Europeーand the fact that a race with a natural gift for the potter's craft and a deep appreciation of its productions has lived and laboured there for twenty centuries (to look no farther back than the Han dynasty), it seems almost presumptuous to attempt a history of so vast and varied an industry within the compass of two volumes. Anything approaching finality in such a subject is out of the question, and, indeed, imagination staggers at the thought of a complete record of every pottery started in China in the past and present. As far as pottery is concerned, we must be content with the identification of a few prominent types and with very broad classifications, whether they be chronological or topographical. Indeed, the potteries named in the Chinese records are only a few of those which must have existed; and though we may occasionally rejoice to find in our colle．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る