Oriental silverwork, Malay and Chinese, with over 250 original illustrations; a handbook for connoisseurs, collectors, students and silversmiths (1910)
ersmiths gradually found themselves withoutwork and allowed themselves to be elbowed out by the more enterprisingChinese, and so the art died a natural death. In the Peninsula it is not considered probable that the decay of theart was in any way due to the introduction of cheap European… … SKETCH MAP TO SHEW THE RFLATIVE POSITIONS of THE. COUNTRIES SURROUNDING THE MALAY PENINSULA only on rare occasions that they can be induced to do so. If a Malaywishes to go on a Jiadj, he will part with almost anything and everythingto obtain the necessary funds wherewith to carry out this…
Silverwork · Art objects, Asian
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