Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 341
te those ornaments whichhave been derived from clouds, and probably owe their originto Central Asia. The head of the sceptre or baton (Fig. 148) has a formwhich has been in use from an early period, for in the collec-tion of antiquities at Nara we find two objects of a similarcharacter, the one… … vases, as the border of certain Yarkand rugs, and, in a modified form, on much Persian work. This is one of the ornaments derived from cloud. But to trace its origin we should have to study many examples inwhich cloud ornament oc-X^J^ curs (see Figs. 149, 150,151, 152, 15 3, and 154).Persian…
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