Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 118
esof translucency. The kindmade especially for the Em-perors use, such as cups,saucers, and rice plates of aruby-red tint, are very thinand almost transparent. The porcelain coloured inturquoise blue, violet, sea-green, and celadon are of theoldest varieties made. Yellow,the colour of Ming dynasty,… … Fig. 85.—Chinese Vase. 100 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. dogs, and lions, as well as nearly all kinds of naturalobjects were used by them as decoration. Conventional
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