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The color blue in pottery and porcelain (1902)

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icdecoration. It has been said that the true secret of the charm that isso subtly evident in things Japanese, consists in the fact thatJapanese artists remember beauty, and paint their memories.One has only to watch an artist at work to note how truethis is. From childhood the thing beautiful has… … Plate showing copy of Chinese mark on reverse. Dish ot Arita porcelain with Nabeshima Kushite pattern on base. Reverse of Owari plate, decorated with vi-ave pattern and tide jewels. So highly imaginative were the early potters of Japan,that the shapes they formed were suggestive of keen…

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