Painted china bottle. This composition is essentially Chinese; not only the flowers and leaves have the peculiar Chinese character, but the fragmentary style of the composition, starting from the flowers, yet linked together, is much less artistic than the continuous stem seeking out and embracing all the flowers symmetrically arranged.From Examples of Chinese ornament, by Owen Jones, London, 1867.
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