Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 214
ness of finishhas taken the place of spiritand grace. These three vases,three feet high, are of a gray-green with a double diaperof two small flower patterns.One is embossed or raised inthe colour of the glaze; theother, of pink and blue convolvulus, etc., overlaysthe first. Devices of swords and… … Fig. 12.-HEXAGONAL JAPANESE VASE These too busy pieces do not repay the chaserwith a good effect when mounted in ormoulu.A very brilliant little hexagonal vase display-ing the fan pattern of Japan,and mounted upon six metallegs, is placed (Fig. 12) upona graceful ormoulu gueridonornamented with…
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