es and head-dresses, insignia of their rank ;sometimes we recognise empresses with bare feet and hanging hair;that is, in the manner in which they are required to appear in thepresence of the Mikado. It is only by this double character that one recognises that thisarchaic porcelain comes from a… … COREAN TEAPOT DECORATED WITH THE JAPANESE KIRI-MON. Charming teapots in the form of leaves, covered with gravingsin the paste imitating the waves of the ocean, show four times repeatedthe figure of the imperial Japanese Jciri-mon (Fig. 30). These pieces,therefore, were destined for the Mikado. If…
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