. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fio, V2l.—Mandarin China. belonging to Mr. Averys collection: one has a portrait of Luther;another has the baptism of Christ, another a Dutch landscape withfigures. They are most curious, and upon the Scripture subjects hangsa tale: As early as 1534 we know that the Portuguese had established atrade with Japan, and, with the aggressive spirit of all Occidentals, KAGA AND SATSUMA WARES. 223 had attempted to introduce their religion into Japau, against the usagesand prejudices of the Japanese, which were pote
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fio, V2l.—Mandarin China. belonging to Mr. Averys collection: one has a portrait of Luther;another has the baptism of Christ, another a Dutch landscape withfigures. They are most curious, and upon the Scripture subjects hangsa tale: As early as 1534 we know that the Portuguese had established atrade with Japan, and, with the aggressive spirit of all Occidentals, KAGA AND SATSUMA WARES. 223 had attempted to introduce their religion into Japau, against the usagesand prejudices of the Japanese, which were potent then. They pushedit to an irritating point, and it is asserted that their meddling with thedecorations in the porcelain factories at last led to their expulsion, andto the massacre and destruction of some forty thousand of their Chris-tian converts in 164:1. The Dutch then persuaded the Japanese to allow them the privi-leges of trade, which they held for some two hundred years; and it isthrough them that most of our line examples have been brought toEurope and here. Besides the
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