Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Lithograph - Original French antique print
- Publisher: Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, Rue Jacob 56, 1885-1887.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 11 x 15.5 inches (28 x 40 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background
on which the print was photographed. 2. Detail of the print is sharper than the photo of the print.
Legend to the illustrations:
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This print contains various expressions of Chinese ornamentation, which
was followed more or less closely by the Japanese, according to the
genre in question, namely, painting on silk or on paper, embroidery, or
printing on fabric. In addition to the vertical naturalistic painting,
there is here a larger scene depicting the branch of a tree in blossom
on which a bird is perched. This example is typical of the bright,
airy, even poetical style at which the Chinese and Japanese have proven
to be so inventive. The two panels with a black ground are embroideries
which form a completely different kind of natural ornament. The plants,
flowers, birds and insects are all set off against this black ground by
colours of varying degrees of brightness, to which the lustre of the
silk conveys the greatest brilliancy. The panel with a brownish crimson
ground belongs to a loftier order. The design, which is
compartmentalized, is printed with the ground itself, and the
decoration is given variety and life by the addition of several flat
tints. In this style, the particular harmony of the decoration is
subordinated to the ground, following the rules of good chromatics. One
may recognize here the experienced eye of those who produced the most
beautiful enamels in the world. The legendary bird in the centre of the
motif is thefu-huang, which belongs to classical ornamentation.
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