A brief history of the Detroit Museum of Art and its collections : illustrated (1902)
Detroit Museum of Art · Detroit : [The Museum] · leaf 61
56 DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART The love of all that is beautiful in nature makes them beautifyeven the most common object. The bronze and iron castings arealways a marvel to our mechanics. The Japanese are the onlypeople who know how to treat iron by casting in artistic forms.For witness, examine the… … CI^OISONNE ENAMEL,Frederick Stearns Collection in the collection. Note the skillful manner by which theyinlay with various metals. These furnish many a theme forcopying, and yet it is when one reaches the Keramics that hismind becomes bewildered by the wealth of inventive genius inform and imagery…
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