. International studio. The wares of the celestial Empire, while ofgreat rarity in earlier days, had become quitewithin the reach of the amateur, if we believeScarrons report of the Saint Germain fair: Menez moi chez les Porlugais,Nous y verrons a peu de fraisDes marcbandises de la Chine,Nous y verrons de Iambre grisDe beaux ouvrages de vermsEl de la porcelaine fineDe cette contree divineOu plutnl de ce paradis. 1 wo t1 l/ilx -eight 1922 inceRnACionAL SIUDIO Mazarin was an ardent admirer <il things the taste l foreign countries Chinese, and among the humble collectors we asserted. Of all th
. International studio. The wares of the celestial Empire, while ofgreat rarity in earlier days, had become quitewithin the reach of the amateur, if we believeScarrons report of the Saint Germain fair: Menez moi chez les Porlugais,Nous y verrons a peu de fraisDes marcbandises de la Chine,Nous y verrons de Iambre grisDe beaux ouvrages de vermsEl de la porcelaine fineDe cette contree divineOu plutnl de ce paradis. 1 wo t1 l/ilx -eight 1922 inceRnACionAL SIUDIO Mazarin was an ardent admirer <il things the taste l foreign countries Chinese, and among the humble collectors we asserted. Of all the purchasers ol I hear of Moliere owning some Chinese cabinets tions andebenisterie,Spain hai and chairs; Daniel Marot proposing over- flamboyant and least suitable to her mantels, composed of consoles bearing Chinese character. Patriarchal Schoenbrunn and pal vases; and when the Grand Monarch in 1700 Potsdam selected wisely, as the) improved upongave a ball and entertainment at Marly, their heirlooms; the SCi. entitled The King of China, whichrequired Chinese musicians antChinese decors, the rest ofFrance willingly succumbedto the fascination fromthe Far East. In vainthe edict of 1709,forbidding the puchase, sale orownership ofwares from Asia,attempted tostop the deepimpression itsdaring artisticprinciples hadmade on theFrench mind,and in spite ofrenewed prohi-bition, pagodes,lacs, porcelaines,tissues, papiers,bureaux, encoig-nures de la Chineet du Japon, andvast quantitymore or less successful imitationsopenly sold byreputable meThe Rocailla fertile field in regularity of Chinese drawing, inthe audacity of their composi-tion of planes, and in the inex-haustible variety of motifs—pagodas, trellises, mountains, clouds, animals, more accessible and less costly. The mountsand figures in strange flowing garments, and though decidedly Rocaille showed great restraintwearing grotesque pointed head-dresses—which of movement, and were sparingly used to throwthey acclimatized and de
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