Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Porcelain wall vases, 18th century. Theleft piece is coral-red monochrome; theright piece has floral decoration in goldon a bright red ground. Avery Collection. of their beaut y, andw () u 1 d certainly he de-prived of all suggestionof their real use if lack-ing the flowers which theyare designed to hold, has made the useof the vases apparent,and has greatly enhancedtheir interest and ])eauty])y placing in them theChinese artificial flowers\\hich are made with ex-traordinary and incred-ible delicacy and lidelity to nature from pieces of jade andother semi
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Porcelain wall vases, 18th century. Theleft piece is coral-red monochrome; theright piece has floral decoration in goldon a bright red ground. Avery Collection. of their beaut y, andw () u 1 d certainly he de-prived of all suggestionof their real use if lack-ing the flowers which theyare designed to hold, has made the useof the vases apparent,and has greatly enhancedtheir interest and ])eauty])y placing in them theChinese artificial flowers\\hich are made with ex-traordinary and incred-ible delicacy and lidelity to nature from pieces of jade andother semi-precious hard stones. With rare exceptions everypiece in the collection is thus adorned, and it has been thework of many years to achieve this result, especially As theseChinese artificial flowersmade from hard stonesare themselves of very in-frequent appearance i nthe majority of collec-tions, and have beenmainly obtained fro magents in China who wereemployed for this purposeby Mr. Avery. As dis-tinct from the collections
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