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The Blue-China Book; Early American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time, With a Supplementary Chapter Describing the Celebrated ... D.c., and a Complete Checking List of K - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER C THE WILLOW PATTERN AND OTHER IMPORTANT BLUE-CHINA SERIES THE STORY OF THE WILLOW PATTERN THE Willow Pattern has been perhaps more popular and more universally familiar ever since the first use of the color blue in English potteries than any other design put upon tableware, but in spite of this fact a surprising amount of ignorance or of half-knowledge concerning it still persists. The Chinese story which inspired the English potter-apprentice Thomas Minton, about the year 1780, to compose and engrave the design to illustrate it may best be given in the form of one of the many delightful bits of verse which formerly were taught to children along with their nursery rhymes: "So she tells me a legend centuries old Of a Mandarin rich in lands and gold, Of Koong-Shee fair and Chang the good, Who loved each other as lovers should. How they hid in the gardener's hut awhile, Then fled away to the beautiful isle. Though a cruel father pursued them there, And would have killed the hopeless pair, But kindly power, by pity stirred, Changed each into a beautiful bird. Here is the orange tree where they talked, Here they are running away, And over all at the top you see The birds making love alway." The large pagoda at the right of the design, as reproduced from an old platter, is the palace of the wealthy Mandarin, while upon the terrace stands the summer house where Koong-Shee, the lovely daughter of the Mandarin, was kept a prisoner in order that she might be concealed from Chang, her father's secretary, who loved her and whom she wished to marry. But, as the story runs in "Old China," Chang was poor and the Mandarin had selected a wealthy suitor for his daughter's hand. From her chamber in the prison the unhappy maiden watched the willow tree blossom while yet th...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150713461
- ISBN 13 9781150713460
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages86
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