Metals and metal-working in old Japan . Si - o tnQ 2o HO w ( 43 )in height, and the date 767 is ascribed to it. The variousscenes from the hunting-field, which are portrayed on thebowl in incised lines, afford an excellent example of tliecombined naturalistic and conventionalized representations ofnatural objects usually seen in early Chinese decorative art. From that time until late in the Middle Ages objects ofsilver are not at all common. The cold and sober colour ofthe metal unfitted it for the display made at Buddhist templesand ceremonies, w^hile it was used but seldom for their ch
Metals and metal-working in old Japan . Si - o tnQ 2o HO w ( 43 )in height, and the date 767 is ascribed to it. The variousscenes from the hunting-field, which are portrayed on thebowl in incised lines, afford an excellent example of tliecombined naturalistic and conventionalized representations ofnatural objects usually seen in early Chinese decorative art. From that time until late in the Middle Ages objects ofsilver are not at all common. The cold and sober colour ofthe metal unfitted it for the display made at Buddhist templesand ceremonies, w^hile it was used but seldom for their chiefvessels and utensils. Silver plate in our sense of the term wasnever in use, even in the palaces of the nobles, or, if so, nonehas come down to us. So that up to near the beginning of the seventeenth centuryspecimens of a few coinages and a few sword-mounts arealmost the only examples of its use which are in impetus which was then given to the decorative arts bythe
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