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Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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equiring a nicety of construction and a precision of drawingnot always to be found in the Chinese work. While the Chineseornamented their lacquer work, for instance, with types fromnature, easily drawn, requiring little technical knowledge, theJapanese used linear ornaments. With the coming of Confucius, 500 B. C, other influenceswere brought to bear upon the Japanese; but if we should attemptto go into religious symbolism the subject would be inexhausti-ble. For centuries the artists of China and Japan have talked to the masses by the symbolism of their design work. As certainlines on a childs map mean the mountains and certain parallellines around the land mean the ocean, so certain lines in Japan-ese work expresses the earth, the heavetis and the ocean. Thefollowing is an outline of the sort of philosophy which is basedon the principles of their art: All forms of art, either plant or animal, may be consideredas the products of heaven and earth. Heaven means here rain,sunlight, etc.
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