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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A TIGER, FROM A PAINTING ON PAPER YUAN DYNASTY charming example of Sung art belong-ing approximately to 1000 A. D. The(Collection o) m. Biondeau) tiger is a fine painting on paper datingto the Yuan dynasty (12-9-1333 A.D.),immediately preceding the first Mings. Thespecimens of this period are too well known tobe dwelt upon. At this time China was ap-proaching the apotheosis of her prosperity andher art reflected her new situation, having becomeextraordinarily recherche but having lost in forcewhat it gained in delicacy. Henceforward more attention is given bv art-ists to material beauty and the value of the workresides more in its decorative than in its plastic A RITUALVASE OFBRONZEIN FORMOF AN OWLCFIOUI>1 NASTY t Collection ojM. Peytel) AUGUST 1922 Jour twenty-one mceRtiAti
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qualities. This is the time porce-lain reached its supremest ex-pressions. We all know thedelight afforded by a beautiful specimen, and in MOUNTED ELEPHANT IN ENAMELLED EARTHENWARE : taNG DYNASTY (Collation of M. Wannieck) country when artists asked novain question, since all hadtheir answer. To our doubtingmind China opposes its convictions. Who knows this respect the most striking contribution to the but from her example we will some day derive exhibition is, perhaps, the big cabinet displayingthree hundred pieces of blue turquoise and anotherwith white Ming and Kang-Hi porcelain, lent byM. Larcade and which are as much an enchant-ment to the eye as might be a bed of flowers. I Ins exhibition has come most propitiously ata time when western artists considered them-selves faced by so many unanswered problems,when each is fumbling for a path. These sculp- a profitable lesson and it may be that MonsieurP. L. Couchoud, the well-known essayist andOrientalist, was a prophet of the truth w

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