Alcock, Rutherford, Sir, 1809-1897 · London : Virtue and Co., Ltd. · leaf 111
983 ART AND ART INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN. If they learned nothing from the Dutch, the question arises, did the Jesuit Fathers teach drawing in their schools, or occupy themselves with the Arts, as some of those at the court of Peking, in the reign of Kanghi, un- questionably did? The latter introduced,… … as we know, the use of vignette medallions on the best china ware, never prior to that adopted in the ornamentation of Chinese porcelain. Then, again, some of the caricatures and illustrations of popular customs, in all their grotesqueness and coarseness, powerfully recall the Dutch paintings and…
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