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Seite 270 - Korean White." The error still survives. Curiously enough, when Christianity began to take root in Japan, at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, statuettes of Kwan-yin (Japanese, Kuan-nori) in Ivorywhite porcelain were used as substitutes for images of the Virgin Mary.
Seite 158 - It is stated to live one thousand years, and to become white when it has reached the first five hundred years. The hare, often miscalled a rabbit, occurs on porcelain, both as a decoration and as a mark.
Seite 155 - The famous set of eight trigrams, known as the Pa-kwa. They consist of combinations of broken and entire lines, each differently placed. The entire lines represent the male, strong, or celestial element in nature, and the broken, the female, weak, or terrestrial. Each group has its own name, and even the dishes at a feast are arranged in accordance with these diagrams. They are said to have been first published by Fuh-hi, the legendary founder of the Chinese polity, who is stated to have lived BC...
Seite 158 - A deer, however, is also used as a symbol of official emolument or prosperity, having the same sound as the word for the latter (luti).
Seite 321 - ... combines with the metal; if, on the other hand, thick smoke is introduced into the furnace, of which the carbonaceous mass, greedy of oxygen, absorbs everywhere this gas, necessary for its combustion, the oxides will be destroyed and the metal completely restored. Placed at a given moment in these given conditions, by the rapid and simultaneous introduction of currents of air and of sooty vapors the haricot glaze assumes a most picturesque appearance; the whole surface of the piece becomes diapered...
Seite 67 - ... among the land and sea Dyaks are common. They are called Nagas, from the Naga, or dragon, which is rudely traced upon them. They are glazed on the outside, and the current value of them is 40 dollars ; but those which are found among the Kyan tribes, and those of South Borneo, and among the Kadyans and other tribes of the north, are valued so highly as to be altogether beyond the means of ordinary persons, and are the property of the Ma69 layan Rajahs, or of the chiefs of the native tribes.
Seite 68 - ... dollars. In the houses of their owners they are a source of great profit ; they are kept with pious care, being covered with beautiful cloths. Water is kept in them, which is sold te the tribe, and valued on account of the virtues it is supposed to possess, and which it derives from the jar which has contained it.
Seite 160 - The peach (tao} is a symbol of marriage but also of longevity. Great virtues were attributed to the peach, especially that which grew near the palace of Si Wang Mu, Queen of the Genii, where the fruit ripened only once in three thousand years.
Seite 152 - XIII. fig. 163) ; its name likewise occurs as a mark (Plate IV. fig. 56) ; this object is frequently represented in the air with dragons, who appear to be emitting it from their mouths ; occasionally rays of effulgence issues from it.
Seite 61 - Its name, on the other hand, leaves no doubt of its Persian nationality. Martaban (Mo-ta-ma) is one of the sixteen states which composed the ancient kingdom of Siam ; it would not be impossible, then, that we must restore to this kingdom the porcelain mentioned in the Arabian...