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CHAPTER XIV.-PiArEs 59, 60, 61, 62.
CHINESE ORNAMENT.
PLATE LIX.
The Ornaments, Nos. 1, 8-17, 24-28, 33-35, 40, 42, are Painted on Porcelain.
Nos. '2-7, 18-23, 29-32, 36-39, 41, are from Paintings.
PLATE LX.
The Ornaments, Nos. 1-12, 16, 19-24, are Painted on Porcelain.
Nos. 17, 18, from Pictures.
Nos. 13, 22, 23, from Woven Fabrics.
Nos. 14, 15, Painted on Wooden Boxes.
PLATE LXI.
The Ornaments, Nos. 1-3, are Painted on Wood.
Nos. 4-6, 9, 10, 12-15, 17, 18, are Painted on Porcelain.
Nos. 7, 8, 11, Woven Fabrics.
No. 16, from a Picture.
PLATE LXII.
Conventional Renderings of Flowers and Fruit, Painted on Porcelain.
NoTWITH9fAND1NG the high antiquity of the civilisation of the Chinese, and
the perfection which
all their manufacturing processes reached ages before our time, they do not
appear to have made much
advance in the Fine Arts.     Mr. Fergusson, in his admirable " Handbook
of Architecture," observes
that "China possesses scarcely anything worthy of the name of Architecture,"
and that all their great
engineering works, with which the land is covered, "are wholly devoid
of either architectural design
or ornament."
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