Excerpt from A Most Valuable Collection of Japanese and Chinese Art Treasures: Comprising Many Specimens of Old Satsuma Ware, Marvelously Decorated, Magnificent Cloisonne Enamels; Very Elegant Bronzes, Inlaid With Gold and Silver; Beautiful Cabinets; Handsome Lacquers; Exquisitely Decorated Kaga Porcelains The old Satsuma-ware, the decoration of which is mostly composed of bird and flower paintings, amongst which the Chrysanthemum, the paeonia, the fowl, the pheasants and pea cocks take a prominent place, is further distinguished by the delicacy of the outline, the fine red and green colors, and by the tracings in thick gold lines of a dull color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.