Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 176
rous statuettes of Confucius,Cheoii-lao, the god of old age, of the Buddhist femaledivinity Kouan-in, and of other divinities. Necklaces,pierced plaques for waist-belt decoration, and the su-chusor rosaries, all are carved with a certain archaic qualityand quaintness, but of a minute and… … Fig. 126.—Ivory Ink-Hom ; Saracenic. (S. K. M.) with dragons, flowers, and quaint figures in toy-like housesand gardens. The puzzle balls are amongst the most wonderful ofthe Chinese carvings in ivory, where quite a number ofloose balls of lessening sizes are contained within eachother, and are all…
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