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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Chinese Porcelains: Collected by Mr. And Mrs. Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio The private Collection of Chinese Porcelains formed by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, described and illustrated in the following pages, contains uniformly important specimens as well as interesting and noteworthy groups that exemplify the high technical skill attained during the early periods of the ceramic art in China, and which are held in great esteem by all connoisseurs to-day. Covering so many centuries in the history of this art, these objects in porcelain, by their surpassing qualities and preeminence, fairly indicate that the transcendent success of their kind, whether owned in private or museum aggregations, contributed largely to the glory of those past epochs to which they are ascribed by native and other authorities. The creations of Chinese ceramists justly enjoy universal celebrity and favor, their singular beauty and exquisite richness making them harmonious adjuncts to tasteful and esthetic surroundings the world over. Decorative applicability, together with a subtle charm of refinement, is always gratifying; and we know that such objects won the enthusiastic admiration of kings and emperors, in Europe as in the far East. 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.