st ancient artisticcraft. The Chinese gem and stonecutter of today is working onmuch the same lines as thosefollowed by the Greek and Romanworkers in stone. He prefers tocut cameos and intaglios ratherthan to cut every beautiful stoneinto facets and get that glitteringeffect which seems to be the… … on a big trade with India in stones cut in thisfashion. The idea of the Chinese cutter when he finds astone to work on, is to cut it into some objectwhich can be worn as a charm ; and at the sametime he tries to take advantage of any defectswhich the stone, from a European point of view, maypossess…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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