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12. Pale blue edge, gold ground. Roses pink, leaves 
green, small scrolls lighter green, chrysanthemums yellow. 
Outlines black. 
13. Dark olive green ground. Gold border and outlines. 
Large flower of ornament red, small flower pale brown. Scrolls 
green, ending in pale blue. Overlapping circles red, dark blue, 
red, light blue, bands holding scrolls dark blue, leaves at base, 
pale blue. Medallion pale brown, green center with dark blue 
scallop. 
14. Pale blue ground. White figure with white scrolls, 
edged with dark blue and orange. Leaves green, touches of 
red in centers of ornaments and edges of flowers. Gold out- 
lines. 
15. Represents the waves of the sea with sea weed and 
the eyes of fishes peering through. The figure above, a con- 
ventionalized dragon, the emblem of protective power, hover- 
ing over the sea. The subject is hardly adaptable to modern 
design. 
16. Shows the typical Chinese dragon, from an embroid- 
ered imperial robe. The dragon is blue on a gold ground, the 
flowers and leaves in natural colors. The dragon is the im- 
perial emblem. 
Application to 
Modern 
Design 
PLATE BORDER — This is a simple adapta- 
tion of No. 12, and thoroughly Chinese. Use 
the colors as given in the original border or 
change the combination to suit yourself. It 
would look well in lustres with gold outlines. 
Tea Caddy. — In the September number we will give a 
modernized version of the bat "all-over" pattern on the body 
of the caddy. As the top ornament is a modern design, the 
body of the piece should correspond. The straight lines on 
the top ornament were not intended to imitate a lyre, they 
were put in simply to give a different tone. This design can 
be treated in the colors given with the original designs Nos, 
5 and I 1, the diaper pattern on the rim being Dark Blue on a 
Pale Blue ground with Gold outlines; or, ground of "all-over" 
pattern Light Bronze Green, ground of border Dark Bronze 
Green, diaper in Gold on Light Bronze Green with Turquoise 
enamel in three pointed figure. Designs worked out in 
enamels, the original colors, outlined in gold. For the top of 
tea caddy, the outside ground is Dark Bronze Green, next 
ground space Light Bronze Green, ground of center figure 
Gold. Light Bronze Green can be made from Dark Bronze 
Green 10 by the addition of y\ to }{, Gold. 
INCENSE BURNER.— This design is made especially to 
show how one style of decoration can be evolved out of an- 
other. To start with, we have design No. 13, a diaper pattern, 
and a medallion suggested by the familiar scroll found in Nos. 
1,2, 10 and 14. Modernizing No. 13, we make both sides of 
scroll alike. We wish to treat the forms with jewels, so the 
circular ornaments are changed to adapt themselves to that 
treatment. We wish to make a jeweled border to contrast 
with plain ground of scroll, so we take a diaper pattern, the 
familiar "rice pattern," but we do not find that it quite adapts 
itself to the desired treatment, so on 
the same dividing lines we try sev- 
eral variations until we strike one 
that suits us. The one in the upper 
left hand corner is the one upon 
which we decide. The band design 
appearing too tame, we introduce 
the medallions above and below the 
bars dividing the decorative band. 
Then we make the design on the 
top to correspond, using a differ- 
ent diaper for contrast. Now treat 
this all as a jewel pattern and 
you will find you have a new, an 
entirely modern design, and if you 
think it out you will find your de- 
sign transformed from Chinese to 
Russian, simply by a change in treat- 
ment of the same motifs. And, 
really, the Russian work has many 
Chinese characteristics, and you can 
trace the influence as well as racial 
characteristics from the Chinese 
through the Tartars, the Cossacks to 
the Russians. We suggest as a 
treatment the following: Ground of 
scroll Bronze Green, design in Gold 
with colored enamel jeweling. Use 
Scarlet, Turquoise, Dark Blue, Green 
and White. Bands above and below- 
Gold, with a Black diaper and col- 
ored enamel dots, Red Bronze inside 
medallions, ornaments Gold and 
enamel, top of rim of Gold, medal- 
lions with enamels on Bronze Green, 
or all Gold, if preferred. 
