Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 280
ve said—they must be our ownMiddle Age work. I remember on one occasion the late Mr. Owen Jones assert-ing before a number of gentlemen that the Japanese had noornament, strictly so called, and that their decorations consistedwholly of conventional representations of natural forms ; while the ART,… … Fig. 97.—Carpenters .\t Work. After a native drawing. characteristic ornament which I could now show ? Few countrieshave more characteristic or more carefully considered ornamentthan Japan ; and it is strange that while this is the case so littleshould be known respecting it in Europe even to this…
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