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====China==== British art historian [[Michael Sullivan (art historian)|Michael Sullivan]] writes that "the earliest color printing known in China, and indeed in the whole world, is a two-color [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]] to a [[Buddhist]] [[sutra]] scroll, dated 1346". Color prints were also used later in the [[Ming Dynasty]].<ref name="Sullivan">{{cite book|author=Michael Sullivan|title=The Arts of China|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CzdICSqnELkC|edition=Third|date=18 June 1984|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04918-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CzdICSqnELkC/page/n222 203]}}</ref> In Chinese [[woodblock printing]], early color woodcuts mostly occur in luxury books about art, especially the more prestigious medium of painting. The first known example is a book on ink-cakes printed in 1606, and color technique reached its height in books on painting published in the seventeenth century. Notable examples are Ming-era Chinese painter [[Hu Zhengyan]]'s ''Treatise on the Paintings and Writings of the Ten Bamboo Studio'' of 1633, and the ''[[Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden]]'' published in 1679 and 1701, and printed in five colors.<ref>L Sickman & A Soper, "The Art and Architecture of China", Pelican History of Art, 3rd ed 1971, Penguin, LOC 70-125675</ref>
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