Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 120
; Chinese, with French Ormolu Mounting. (S.K.M.) renderings of flowers and foliage and geometric ornamentare often used in a judicious sense. POTTERY lOI Peculiar shapes of vases, such as the square, hexagonal,and octagonal forms, are found very frequent in Orientalware. The vase (Fig. 86), from… … Fig. 87.—Japanese Ancient Vase ; circa B.C. 640. design, though not so gaudy in appearance as the Chinese,owing to the higher sense of artistic feeling and indi-viduality of the Japanese artists. The art, as seen in theceramic productions as well as in most other things ofJapanese art and design,…
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