The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 311
e of the eighteenthcentury, the influence of the Far East.Chinese motives of decoration play animportant part in the furniture andceramics of the reign of Louis XV.The manufacture of Chinese porcelainbegan about the period of Charlemagne ;traders brought specimens to Europefrom the thirteenth… … FIG. 573.—INDUSTRY.C. MEUNIER. (Mus^c du Luxembourg, Paris.) the art of Japan, which delights in allthe subtleties of line, all the brilliantcaprices of colour, disdains symmetry 292 ART IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by virtue of a kind of glorified stra-bism, and paints and carves animalswith a…
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