A vindication of the decorated pottery of Japan
A privately printed Liverpool book of 1891 by collector James Lord Bowes, defending Japanese decorated pottery for a circle of connoisseurs and collectors. Its pictures are small line engravings of Chinese-style auspicious objects, a seal-script inscription, a shaggy lion-dog and a bearded sage holding a tablet, arranged in roundels and framed blocks that suggest motifs for border or medallion designs.
