Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 442
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, probabh- in white copper(called by the Japanese tutenague),which has a dragon hammered up onits interior surface… … Fig. 180.Bronze Hiroshima Candlestick. 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 mediaeval or early renaissance work still preservedto us. There is about these works…
Architecture -- Japan · Art -- Japan · Japan -- Description and travel
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