Author: PIGGOTT, Sir Francis.
Title: Studies in the Decorative Art of Japan.
Description: London, Batsford 1910 [printed by the Box of Curios, Yokohama]. Quarto publisher's patterned cloth; 130pp & 32 plates (numbered to 33 but plate 16 does not exist; some colour), illustrations through the text. A very good copy. ¶ A delightful and fairly esoteric enthusiast's study, like most of the best books, by the Chief Justice of Hong Kong; with chapters on the decoration of temples, of flat surfaces, wave and cloud forms, lattice work, the circular form, and a 'special chapter' on the evolution of the key border in the east.
Keywords: art history Japan Asia ornament decoration pattern
Title: Studies in the Decorative Art of Japan.
Description: London, Batsford 1910 [printed by the Box of Curios, Yokohama]. Quarto publisher's patterned cloth; 130pp & 32 plates (numbered to 33 but plate 16 does not exist; some colour), illustrations through the text. A very good copy. ¶ A delightful and fairly esoteric enthusiast's study, like most of the best books, by the Chief Justice of Hong Kong; with chapters on the decoration of temples, of flat surfaces, wave and cloud forms, lattice work, the circular form, and a 'special chapter' on the evolution of the key border in the east.
Keywords: art history Japan Asia ornament decoration pattern
Price: AUD 100.00 = appr. US$ 69.19 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 2416
- Book number: 2416