Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 235
ymmetrical arrangement of ornament, or of columns,or openings. We have also found a crude satisfaction in the use of strong, glar-ing colors. NYe have delighted to copy and to tell a common story in a com-mon way in our decorations. I believe this is wholly wrong. The Japanese artist never uses… … Fig. 124.— Teapot icitli. Peach Decoration. A pair of vases belonging to ^frs. James, of Cambridge, have apicture of a gentleman and lady, above whose heads is seen a canopyor roof. The meaning is thus exj)lained by a .[a})anese gentleman ofthis day, who was in T)ostoii : JAPANESE PORCELAIN AT…
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