Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 444
kers still chiefly live ; but repoussework is also made in Kioto and Tokio. The finest specimens that I haveseen of this particular work are theproperty of Mr. Mounsey.^ Curiously,I have never seen any other specimenssimilar to these. He has a bowl inwhite metal, probably in white copper(called by… … Fig. 180.Bronze Hiroshima Candlestick. With much sorrow I learn of this gentlemans death while my book is in the press. 426 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, of vases, about two feet in height, surrounded by nimbused saints,and robes treated with a crisp conventionality, equalling, if notsurpassing, any…
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