The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 197
the otherhand, it lacks that precision, order,regularity, repetition, to which com-merce and machinery have given value.There are hundreds of names forthese wares. Those we know best arethe blue and white Canton ; the oldNankin, with its green ground andpagodas ; the lovely Kaga, red andgold, and… … Wedgwood Pieces. been brought out. Except in the olderwares, complete table-services are rare-ly brought out. This is on account ofthose inequalities of texture, form, anddecoration that the Western mind, un-less in its exceptional state, dislikesAll these wares, however, are importedin such manner…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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