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Chinese painting, weaving, embroidery and cloisonné, (1898). Examples of painted decoration, textiles and enamelling: 'Fig 1: Conventional representations of fruit and flowers painted on porcelain. Fig 2: Painted border from a China vessel. Fig 3: Painting from a little wooden chest. Figs 4, 5 and 6: Portions of bed-curtains embroidered in silk and gold (XV. century). Figs 7, 8 and 9: Patterns from woven stuffs. Figs 10 and 11: Portions of an old China copper-vase executed in 'émail cloisonné' [a type of enamelling]. Figs 12-23. Ornaments on vases, bowls and censers executed in 'émail cloisonné''. Plate 12 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)