Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum In keramics a great improvement had been effected ie the fabri cation of glazed wheel - made ware of good quality was carried on in many provinces, and the industry was elaborately organized by laws promulgated direct from the throne; but no attempt was yet made, nor indeed for many centuries afterwards, to apply pictorial design to the decoration of the produce. The art of lacquering, which appears to ...
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Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum In keramics a great improvement had been effected ie the fabri cation of glazed wheel - made ware of good quality was carried on in many provinces, and the industry was elaborately organized by laws promulgated direct from the throne; but no attempt was yet made, nor indeed for many centuries afterwards, to apply pictorial design to the decoration of the produce. The art of lacquering, which appears to have existed from the latter part of the Sixth century, had so far developed in the eighth century by the admixture of gold-powder with the ordinary materials, by inlaying with silver and mother-of-pearl, and by the application of decorative pictorial designs, that it had risen from a mere varnishing process into an art of no small aesthetic value, which the Japanese have since made peculiarly their own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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