Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner: With Condensed Accounts of the Genius, Government, History, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trade Manners, Customs, and Social Life of the People of the Celestial Empire |
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Ancient porcelain appearance bamboo basket beautiful beautifully painted birds black tea boats Bohea bronze Buddha called Canton Canton river carried carved ceremony China colour Common Quail Confucius contain copper costume covered cups curious dress dynasty embroidered Emperor Emperor of China esteemed European feet female figures flower-pots flower-vase flowers foreign fruit Furniture Gallinule gentleman's George Staunton gilt green teas hand heaven Honan Hong merchant Howqua hundred idols imperial incense vessel inscribed interior ivory kind labour lacquered box lanterns leaf Macao Mandarin and lady manufacture marble matchlock maxims metallic moon Nankin officers Ornamental stand pagoda Pekin person placed porcelain tea-pot porcelain vessel present priest province rank reign remarkable represented resembling rice rice-paper rich richly river shew side silk silver singular species stone summer Sung dynasty Tartar temple tree variety various vase visiter wall ware white porcelain whole worn