Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 217
is immenselyexaggerated by the Chinese themselves. M. StanislasJulien, in his Histoire et Fabrication de la Porcelaine Chi-noise, places the invention between the years 185 before, and87 after, our era. Champollion, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson,and others, indeed, supported the native claims for a… … Small Chinese bottles found in Egyptian 1 (Marry at.) difficult as the problem thus presented for solution may be,the lettering on these little bottles proves them to bemodern, comparatively to the tombs in which they werefound. The form of the letters is that of a late alphabet,and the words…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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