Excerpt from Chinese Pottery of the Han, T'ang and Sung Dynasties This collection represents the fruit of seventeen years' intensive col lecting in the far East. When Mr. H. A. E. J aehne, of Tokyo, Japan, first began to collect, few Westerners realized the beauty and bigness of the early Chinese wares. With great discernment, foresight, and ap preciation, Mr. J aehne sought out and obtained many fine specimens. The group grew very slowly, for the Chinese were loath to part with their treasures, well knowing their artistic and intrinsic value. These pieces he put aside for himself, being unwilling to part with them until 'he had made the comprehensive collection here described. This con sists of many unique specimens, rare shapes and designs, the colour of the pieces and their forms well illustrating the types one usually reads of in books only. They represent examples of the best work of the Chinese potters from the Han to the Ming Dynasty, covering a period of about thirteen hundred years. There is naturally a limited number of these choice examples that have survived the vicissitudes of time, and this number is yearly decreasing; but the demand for them in creases at such a rate that seldom can more than a very few pieces be assembled and exhibited at one time. In order to make this exhibition as representative as possible of the early wares, we have augmented the J aehne Collection with rare exam ples recently acquired from the Adolphe Gros j ean Collection. 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.