Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 295
othand mucous under surface is exposedfrom above. In this work the texture of the shell is perfectly given ;the little striae indicating its successive stages of growth beingcarefully marked ; while the voluted form and slightly recurvedorifice of the shell are rendered with a fidelity and feeling… … Fig. 119.—Origin of the Haw-iHORN Pattern. The latefrost nips the Plum blossoms,and causes them to fall on thethin and cracked ice. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 279 shell, over which it almost seems to slide, while the horn-likebodies are protruded in a manner so life-like that they mightreadily be…
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