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The Humorists and Landscapists 
of Japanese Painting 
{Continued from page 66) 
painter; Tachibane Setsuen, who also 
chiefly painted flowers; and Kaburajai 
Untan, whose best pictures are studies of 
cocks and hens. 
All these men, and quite a host of 
their generation, had grand technical 
dexterity, yet little more. They gave 
slight evidence of seeking to utter with 
the brush their own feelings, in their 
own way, being content to trade in the 
vision of their great predecessors; while 
shortly the beautiful landscapist, No¬ 
mura, sho.wed an inclination to look to 
the Western schools as his exemplar. 
Much has been said about the quick 
development of this bias with Japanese 
artists lately, much too about the Wes¬ 
ternising of Japanese ways in general. 
But the extent of the change has been 
greatly exaggerated, those who have ex¬ 
patiated on it having mostly lived in 
Japan, only in Europeanized hotels, or 
moved in a consular or academic coterie, 
instead of blending with the people, ac¬ 
cepting their mode of life. 
The decline of Japanese art is owing 
simply to the lack of strong individuali¬ 
ties, the new freedom having failed to 
create such, even as the old tyranny 
failed to suppress them. Yet no doubt 
the blight is merely ephemeral, no doubt 
Japan will soon, once more, bring forth 
a group of splendid masters, thus giv¬ 
ing a fresh significance and justice to 
the most poetic of her many names. The 
Empire of the rising Sun. 
Capo Di Monte Porcelains 
{Continued from page 27) 
senza inventario” un¬ 
der Duke Antonio, while 
under Charles himself 
he had been “Primo 
depintore di camera.” 
Is it any wonder that, 
with all these qualifica¬ 
tions, he should have 
been able to bring forth 
such perfect work at 
the King’s pet porcelain 
palace ? 
Charles also had an 
eye to business; most 
monarchs have had. 
Like the French kings 
of a later period he was 
thoroughly interested in 
the sales from the royal 
enterprise. He inaugu¬ 
rated an annual porce¬ 
lain fair in Naples—the 
fair of 1745 brought in 
nearly half a million 
gold ducats!—and there 
was a saying current in 
his day that the pur¬ 
chase of a goodly num¬ 
ber of Capo di Monte 
pieces was a sure way 
to win the monarch’s 
special favor. Charles’ 
successor followed the 
s course. I do not 
believe Lord Nelson 
was seeking any such 
attention when he set 
foot in the Palace Park 
1798, for this is 
what he wrote about it: 
‘T went to visit the 
magnificent manufac¬ 
ture of porcelain. After 
having admired all the 
beautiful things and as 
I had nearly spent all 
the money I had with 
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Under Ferdinand IV 
and the regency, the 
wares of Capo di Mon¬ 
te degenerated year 
after year. A new mark 
adopted, the FNF and 
Crown and the N and 
Crown, in blue. This 
was known as the Sec¬ 
ond Period of Capo di 
Monte. Extreme Roc- 
coco forms appeared. 
The works were re-es¬ 
tablished after Charles’s 
departure, first at Por- 
tici and then brought 
again to Naples. In 
Windsor Castle, Eng¬ 
land, there is a Capo 
di Monte dinner service 
which the King of Na¬ 
ples presented to George 
III in 1787. On May 
18, 1818, the manu¬ 
factory of the old ware 
ceased under royal pa¬ 
tronage and the Doccia 
factory is said to have 
acquired the molds of 
the Capo di Monte 
pieces. For a little 
while before this the 
Capo di Monte ware 
continued as a private 
enterprise, byt with the 
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advent of the Parthen- 
opean Republic and the 
political crisis the com¬ 
plete end of the old 
ware had come about. 
Ferdinand had estab¬ 
lished an Accademia 
del Nudo in Naples in 
the year 1898 and gesso 
copies of ancient sculp¬ 
ture were then pro- 
_ _ saw duced. The Capo di Monte figures 
the busts in porcelain of the entire are very lovely and fine examples 
royal family. Then when I wished to of this genre to be treasured. But 
pay I was informed that the King had even the other objects in Capo di 
given order to deliver to me anything Monte of the late period do not, a great 
I wished gratis.” I have never found number of them, deserve the neglect they 
out just what Lord Nelson carried away, have received, partly I think, because 
and whether or not “the busts in porce- so many writers of handbooks on cer- 
lain of the entire royal family” were amics pass slightingly over them, or tell 
wished upon him or not as he emerged us they are of little interest or worth, 
from the factory’s one and single door- True it is that much of this Second 
way. Period Capo di Monte was but an imita- 
In 1759 Charles succeeded to the tion of Sevres, decoration and all, but 
throne of Spain and left that of Naples even here there were lovely pieces. As 
to his third son. He had no thought of for me my little cut that has the N that 
deserting his hobby and carried along is not Napoleon’s came to be invested 
with him the best workmen from Capo with as much interest as though it had 
di Monte. What Naples lost in quality been, for, there in the little cabinet, it 
Spain gained in the Spanish porcelain reminds me of the Naples I know and 
of Buen Retiro which Charles founded love, and that brings it nearer to my 
'i his new kingdom. heart than the Bonaparte ever could be 1 
