Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 446
S. 427 box, tazza, or tray ; and each specimen bore the marks of thehammer, like a modern frying-pan. Silver inlaid sprays, borderedby sunk tool marks, gave relief to the surface (Fig. 182). ButHiroshima work was also characterised by little embossed metalclasps, which overlaid every crack, handle,… … Fig. 181. His Spect.\cles. Fig. 182.Hiroshima Bronze Tazia, inlaid with silver. It would take many printed pages to enumerate the excellencesand specialties of Japanese metal-work ; the task, therefore, mustnot be attempted. The wood-carver, the enameller, the weaver,the printer, and others have an…
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