Studio: international art (64.1915)

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COREAN TEA BOWL (KORAI REGIME)

(Prince Lis Collection)

literary men, Mr. A. A. Remezoff and Count Alexis
Tolstoy, in the same material, must also be counted
among the clous of the show. Both these works
have been acquired for the Tretiakoff Gallery.

as to point to a close intercourse be-
tween the two countries in early times.
This “ sucking ” jar, therefore, was re-
garded as of great value from an archaeo-
logical standpoint, as well as an evidence
of the standard of artistic attainment in
the Shiragi period. The use of the jar
is not very explicitly known, but it ap-
pears to have been used to hold wine
and other drinkables to be sucked by a
long tube inserted into the small hole.
There were also some porcelain jars,
some with and others without a glaze
of dull colours. Most of the ceramic
products of this period were of a dark
colour.

Prince Li’s collection also included
some fine specimens of the product of the
Korai period. They showed fine workmanship, most
of them having some carving on the ground with a
transparent glaze over it. A few pieces, such as

In an earlier number of this magazine I have
spoken of the work of Stanislaw Noakowski, an
architect who has made a special study of Russian
native architecture. Ardently pursuing this line
of work, he has in the meantime executed a large
number of drawings, and it is from these that the
two now reproduced have been selected.

P. E.

TOKYO.—One of the most interesting
collections of art objects recently shown
in Tokyo comprised the treasures of
Prince Li, a former King of Corea,
which were exhibited in the Corean Building of
the Taisho Exhibition. One of the most valuable
exhibits was an eight-panelled screen with a
painting representing a naval review which took
place after a Corean victory over Japan in the
Bunroku era. The ceramic ware constituted a most
interesting part of the collection. There were a
number of pieces of earthenware of the Shiragi
period including bone jars of interesting shapes.
Among the exhibits was a “ sucking ” jar, said to
have been dug up in Southern Corea, and bearing
a striking resemblance to jars found in old Japanese
tombs and now preserved at the Imperial University
at Tokyo and in the Antiquarian Museum at
Yamada. It may be remembered that a number of
pieces of pottery discovered in Iviushyu and in
Southern Corea were found to be so much alike
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COREAN FLOWER VASE (KORAI REGIME)
(Prince Lis Collection)