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Chinese art

Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908, Victoria and Albert Museum · 1905 · London : Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Wyman · 98 pictures

A two-volume survey of Chinese art written by Stephen W. Bushell for the Victoria and Albert Museum and printed in London by Wyman for H.M. Stationery Office in 1905, intended as a handbook for museum visitors, collectors and students of the decorative arts. The halftone plates reproduce carved lacquer and jade panels, bronze vessels, Buddhist cave paintings, temple interiors and architectural ornament, offering dense relief landscapes, scrollwork borders, dragon medallions and repeating wave and cloud patterns.

Art, Chinese · Decorative arts

Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0