Epochs of Chinese & Japanese art, an outline history of East Asiatic design (1912)
Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908, Fenollosa, Mary McNeil · New York, Frederick A. Stokes company · leaf 78
ve on the bands. Still a third form is the bronze drums, which Professor Hirth has so well shown to have originated in early Han. The patterns on these are very different from the early Pacific, as from the Northern Han, and seem to point to a far Southern, and perhaps a Malay, origin. Such drums… … skin. The ornamentation is incised in fine line pattern, quite unlike the clay reliefs, but surmounted at the top of the drum by rude bronze images of frogs in complete relief. We do not know what symbolism was played by this animal form, but we can clearly say that their modelling is precisely…
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