Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 438
these marvellous objectsto Europe, and he most kindly showed me how he achieved hisresults. The great peculiarity which I noticed in the Japanese methodconsisted in a fresh model being made for every work produced.Thus, if fifty kettles were to be formed of the same pattern, notonly would a fresh… … which have become so fashionable for the afternoon tea-drinking,and which frequently have a flower or some other device juttingout from the side in almost full relief These are of Japanesemanufacture, and while the bodyis of iron the lid and the handleare generally of bronze (Fig. i J6).To produce…
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