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Updated: June 17, 2025
His own, it turned out, was done in 1820; but even then, you see, he had the advantage over me. So I concentrated on books. But I could not resist the temptation of glancing through my first editions now and then, and the pages began to give way. Then I tried Chinese porcelains.
This is what she has lived on till to-day this and another resource. Her husband, as she has often told me, had the artistic temperament: that's common, as you know, among ces messieurs. He made the most of his little opportunities and collected various pictures, tapestries, enamels, porcelains, and similar gewgaws.
He was clerk, supercargo, anything that the interest of the Company demanded. He worked with a will. His thoughts were full of tea, silks, and lacquered ware, of exquisite carved ivory and wonderful porcelains, of bamboos, umbrellas, and garden-chairs, of Hong-Hi, Ching-Ho, and Fi-Fo-Fum.
"It's full of all kinds of junk they never liked it no period, you see. I had the run of it I loved it as though it were alive; it was alive, for me. From Elizabeth's day down, all the family adventurers brought their treasures here beaten gold and hammered silver mother-of-pearl and peacock feathers, strange woods and stranger spices, porcelains and embroideries and blown glass.
It is in his pictures, replete with exquisiteness, that one finds the true analogy to lyric poetry. This lyricism makes them seem mostly Greek often I have thought them Persian, sometimes again, Indian; certainly he learned something from the Chinese in their porcelains and in their embroidery.
March would not have missed, though she perished of her pleasure, one of the things she saw. She had for once a surfeit of highhoting in the pictures, the porcelains, the thrones and canopies, the tapestries, the historical associations with the margraves and their marriages, with the Great Frederick and the Great Napoleon.
I hadn't dreamed in those days when Billy and I sat alone on the steps of the treasures that were shut up behind us. The old furniture was dusty, but all the dust in the world couldn't hide its beauty. The dining-room was hung with cobwebs, but when the candles were lighted we saw the Sheffield on the old sideboard, the Chinese porcelains, the Heppelwhite chairs, the painted sheepskin screen
The light thus concentrated did not reach the dark angles of the vast atelier; but a few wandering reflections gleamed through the russet shadows on the silvered breastplate of a horseman's cuirass of the fourteenth century as it hung from the wall, or sent sharp lines of light upon the carved and polished cornice of a dresser which held specimens of rare pottery and porcelains, or touched with sparkling points the rough-grained texture of ancient gold-brocaded curtains, flung in broad folds about the room to serve the painter as models for his drapery.
"I must get back to my work," she said, and so left them. The two women turned toward each other. "There is no hope for Orange," observed Sara drily: "no man would ever forget her." "He needn't forget her, but " "Yes, it would have to be sheer, absolute forgetfulness. I like her. I like all beautiful things pictures, statues, bronzes, porcelains, and white marble visions!
I question however whether, from a purely artistic standpoint, Satsuma is worthy of being compared with many of the other porcelains in Japan. Much of it as seen in Europe was specially made for Europe, and having been so is, I suggest, not in the true sense artistic.
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