Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 36
believer can produce such mar-velous examples of the chimerical; it takes an artist saturated inthe belief in them. The difference between the Celtic and the Japanese andChinese grotesqueries rests in the treatment. The Celtic ispurely decorative. The drawing of an animal figure is… … JAPANESE The Decorative Periods 35 It has been said by Monsieur \on Brandt that a China-man is born a Confucionist, Hves as a Taoist and dies a Budd-hist, which simply means that while a nominal adherent of theold State religion he is all his life much given to superstitiouspractices and at his…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament · Interior decoration
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