Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 116
aving the sea-greenglaze on white, and others on red, earth. Certain of these bearbands of Chinese ornament or sprays of foliage wrought uponthem, while the ornament on others is obviously Indian in character.But the most curious object in the collection is perhaps a lamp ofsingular formation (Fig.… … which is a pin that connects it with the bracket on which it rests :in this saucer, and leaning over its side, is a wick. When thesaucer is filled with oil and the wick is litwe have a lamp which exhibits no peculiarqualities till most of the oil has been con-sumed. Then suddenly a stream,…
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