Marks and monograms on pottery & porcelain of the renaissance and modern periods, with historical notices of each manufactory, preceded by an introductory essay on the vasa fictilia of the Greek, Romano-British, and mediæval eras; and an appendix containing a brief history of the country of Japan and its keramic manufactures, &c., &c. (1876)
s (page 384), viz., happiness, riches, long life, the love of virtue, and a natural death, are one or more of them depicted on the vase; and even the handles are sometimes formed in the Chinese character simple or ornamented, and many others in the following list: — The Pa-kwa, or eight tri- grams… … centre of two trigrams on each side of the vase. M. Jacquemart is of opinion that they also refer to the two principles or forces, the yang or active represented by a circle and the yn or passive by a square, to which we have before alluded (page 371).
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