Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 98
easts of the earth ; or perhaps hunting-scenes and com-bats, where you see warriors dressed in armour and ter-rifying helmets, on horseback pursuing monsters andchimaeras. The most peculiar one, assuredly, is decoratedentirely with fans,—fans of all forms and of all colours,open, shut, and half… … THE MIKADOS PALACE 63 all, is that series of high pierced friezes that extendsaround all the ceilings; you think of generations of patientworkmen who have worn themselves out in chiselling suchdelicate, almost transparent, things, in such thicknesses ofwood: sometimes there are rosebushes,…
Palaces · Castles
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