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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 122

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ollow thisemployment, do not sit on chairs, but onlarge china or common ware jars. The Chinese embroidery is very fa,rfrom bearing any comparison, for delicacyand chasteness of design, with that ofEurope, but it is distinguished by amerit peculiar to itself. They have amethod of embroidering in… … ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 87 The embroiderer herein represented, isat work on two pieces of silk cloth ; onefor a civil mandarin, which is distin-guished by the figure of a bird; theother for a miUtary mandarin, on whichis that of a quadruped. If the Chinese and Indians do not bearaway the pahn from…

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