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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: April, 1909 Cloisonné enamels, in which the predominating colors are lapis lazuli blue, dark coral red, yellow, green and clouded white, on a medium blue ground. The decorative motives are conventional dragons and cloud scrolls, the metal ribs terminating in discs enameled with the yin yagn or divided circle symbol, in red and white. This vase belongs probably to the Ching T'ai period of the Ming dynasty (1450-1456 A. It is mounted on a square teak-wood stand, with carved designs in harmony with the decoration of the vase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.