Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-12-19


rails and the corner posts carved in
the most curious and truly amazing
detail, is valued at $4,000. A single
lifetime of one skilled man could not
nave been more than sufficient for the
work. 1t far exoels any piece of
woodwork in the entire exhibition
Sung Sing Kung, of NingpoO, exhib-
tied one Press, $3.50. Wash-stand, $3.50,
Sideboard, $3.50, Wardrobe, 1885, an
Ivory Case, $3.50 a Puzzle Table, $3.50.
These are inlaid with ivory, represents
ing birds, beasts, fishes reptiles and
flowers in vast numbers and with
great skill. The Pure Table is made
of seven pieces, susceptible of being
used separately or in hundred COM
biuations, forming so many different
figures. -Four of them are triangle.
one square and one rhomboidal i'm
shape. Tie triangles are suited to the
corners of the room. and all of them
can he fitted to make either one or
two squares.
The Ivory Case is ball the size OF
an ordinary Cocoanut, with ten circu
lar holes in it of the size of nickle,
Within 1t, and leaving no more room
between them than the thickness of
an ordinary knife blade, is a similar
ball, with ten holes, smaller in size
to accord with the size of the ball it
self Within this is another smaller
aud similar bsll. and so on until the
number resches fifteen, and of course
the last of the series is very small in |
size. How the work could have been
done at all is n wonder and the price, |
$500, is none too much for the work.
An Ivory Pagooa Castle ia worth |
5000. A pair of snail bronze Vases IL
worth $500. A bronze Pagoda Light |
house, five feet high, is worth $780,
The display of Vases, rare and curious
in design, is very large. 1 leave
thousands. of articles that 1 cannot
detail, and pass on to
JAPAN.
Here we have higher type of hui
man development. Hither comes the |
mighty oriental world and no further.
1t seems that here came the more en-
terprising Of the children who, in |
their ambition to discover the new
world stepped out into the sea and
there built their Civilization to tempt |
the bold nRvigators of the Pacific
Their exhibits show them to be
mighty people.
A pair of bronze Vases. fifteen in
ches high, is valued at $500. Beauti-
full red vases, very handsomely carved,
and strangely gold-crnsted laquer-
ware, trimmed in silver, excite sur
prise and admiration. A beautiful
Mandarin Duck, the symbo'
OF conjugal love; shell bowl, two
feet in diamete worth $500 an open
cs binet, three feet high and two feet
broad worth 81 900 one if ivory one
foot square worth $3.50, and inlaid
with gold aud trimmed in jet, with
base of ebony a cabinet, four by five
feet, worth $685. a magic cabinet, of
wood of same size, worth $3.50 q
dwarf skull carved from ivory ali
ivory boat, containing monkey mis-
pulling the bostsman's ear
and an ivory covered boat. with falcon
hunters on board were triumphs of
artistic skill and cunning which no
people can surpass. There were ar
NOR suits and shields made of Rhi-
noceros hides, and fine pictures, one
Mount Full, an extinct
volcano 1900 feet high, capped with
snow ten months Of the year, were to
be seen, Japan Is a wonderful coun-
try, and the japanese a wonderful
people Bat l must PASSION
l SEE.