Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 135
ects. Excessive finish often (but by no means always) destroys art-effect. Ihave before me some specimens of Japanese earthenware, which are formed of acoarse dark brown clay, and are to a great extent without that finish which mostEuropeans appear so much to value, yet these are artistic and… … Fig. 97. Fig. 9S. Fig. 99. Fig. 100. We must now devote ourselves to a special consideration of the shapes of earthenvessels, and to the manner in which ornament should be applied to them. In bis primitive condition man appears to have used the shells of certain fruitsas drinking vessels and…
Decoration and ornament
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