Excerpt from Old Chinese Art: Single Color Porcelain and Pottery Decorated Porcelain, Including Five Colors and Blue and White, Also Cloisonn Enamels, Bronzes and Lacquers, From the Collection of the Late A. D. Startseff, the Noted Private Buyer of Tientsin Decorated with two grasshoppers, one perched on a crackle vase, and the other on a rose bush. Kien-lung, 1736-1795. 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.