Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares

INTRODUCTION

When we consider the great extent of the Chinese Empire and its teeming population--both of them larger than those of Europe--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 ...