Identifier: decorativeartjapan00pigg (find matches)
Title: Studies in the decorative art of Japan
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Design
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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such a way as to lead to theiradoption. Possibly their formality displeased them ; and the family council,which I have imagined considering the momentous question of design, was lothto part from the waving foliations of their favourite flower. Yet, still relying onOwen Jones, surface decoration composed of small ornaments regularly repeatedin spaces formed by intersecting lines, or without them, were common to Egypt,and seem to have reached a certain degree of excellence in Assyrian art. Itwould seem therefore, as there is no trace of this kind of surface decorationamong the Greeks, that the rejection of the eastern diapers followed their priorrejection of those of Egypt and Assyria. These three concluding plates are referred to on page 55 as illustra-tions of the best form of conventional naturalism :— Plate 31, the nanten, in dull gold, with searlet berries, on blacklacquer Plates 32 and 33, iris, in dull gold, with flowers, in bright goldfoil, on black lacquer. J^ • v* *?#* *g?
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Plate 81. THE NANTEN (.\ANDINA DOMESTIC*) CONVENTIONALISED

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