Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 190
d portals (pailus), though executed in stone,appear to be a whimsical imitation of elaborate cabinet-work. Thetemple towers (taas) are like magnified centre-pieces of banqueting-tables, and compare most unfavorably with the topes of Indianarchitecture,—the senseless reduplication of the encircling… … Fig. 84.—Pagoda of Tung-Chow, China. 154 CHINA. built between A. D. 1412 and 1431, which reaches the heightof 70 m. The sculpture and painting of Eastern Asia was of a similar toy-like character. The methods of workmanship and the materialsdevoted to these arts can be fittingly employed only in…
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