Published in 1883,L'Art Japonaiswas the groundbreaking text for nineteenth-century connoisseurs of Japanese art--both in the sense of creating a canon and providing a conceptual framework. A survey of all aspects of Japanese art by the prominent collector and art critic Louis Gonse (1846-1921), these volumes had a profound influence on Frenchjaponisme. The chapter on ceramics, for which Gonse's collection was especially renowned, is by Siegfried Bing...