. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . ing porcelain. In the year 859 the two provinces of Idsoumi and Kavatsi wentinto a violent quarrel over a mountain which contained clay and fire-wood. But the vast wants of such a tasteful and teeming people as theJapanese advanced this most useful and beautiful industry until thetime of Katosiro (in the 1200s), when it went forward to perfection,and rivaled or excelled the best work of China. In later years the great centre of porcelain-production has been theisland of Kiushiu. Upon the Idsoumi-yoma for Mo
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . ing porcelain. In the year 859 the two provinces of Idsoumi and Kavatsi wentinto a violent quarrel over a mountain which contained clay and fire-wood. But the vast wants of such a tasteful and teeming people as theJapanese advanced this most useful and beautiful industry until thetime of Katosiro (in the 1200s), when it went forward to perfection,and rivaled or excelled the best work of China. In later years the great centre of porcelain-production has been theisland of Kiushiu. Upon the Idsoumi-yoma for Mountain r»f Springs), where was foundthe kaolinic clay. Dr. Tloffinau numbers some five-and-twenty shopsfamous for porcelains. From the recent work of Messrs. Audesley and Bowes, it seems thatthe province of Ilizen has produced the finest examples of Japanese JAPANESE PORCELAIN. 213 porcelain. The fii-st nuinber of this work has just reached us, and givesgreat promise. The authors are Mr. George Ashdowu Audesley, archi-tect, and James Lord Bowes, President of the Liverpool Art Fig. lib.—Japanese Vate. Xo work npon the ceramic art has appeared superior to this, especiallyin its decorations. Wliile the fine, delicate perception and touch of the Japanese havegivea an added grace and finish to most of their work, as a w^hole theirporcelain may be said to be a following (rather than a copying) of theChinese: in China porcelain was indigenous; in Japan it was animportation. In China, then, we shall find more original inventionand greater variety ; in Japan, more finish. The best work of Jaj)anis often superior in the paste and in the glaze to the Chinese. As toclassification, it is found that the two styles of China porcelain called 214 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. The Clirysautlienio-ri^onieime * aud The Famille-Eose are the twowhich most prevail in Japan : and it is not easy to distingnish the linework of the one country from that of tlie other. In the rose family is to be found
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