Illustrated Catalogue of the Noteworthy Collection of Cloisonne and Other Enamels, Old Japanese Bronzes, Sword Guards, Knife Handles, Swords, Lacquers
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...on a turquoise ground. Japan, Osaka. Modern. Height, 6% inches. 512--Covered Bowl Of brilliant cloisonne enamels, decorated throughout with floral arabesques in colors on a bright blue ground. Style of Goto, nineteenth century. Height, 6% inche. 513--Koro Or Incense Burner Decorated in bold cloisonne enamels with dragon, wave, and cloud patterns in colors on a turquoise ground. Cover pierced; enameled lotus bud handle. Japan, second half nineteenth century. Height, 6'/2 inches. 514--Tazza In brilliant cloisonne enamels, enriched with varicolored floral sprays and arabesques on a turquoise ground. Chinese. Chien lung 1736-95. Height, 5 inches. 515--Covered Box In teakwood and cloisonne enamels of minute floral sprays in colors on turquoise blue, stained green. Japan. Modern. Height, 4 inches. 516--Two Cloisonne Enameled Plates Ornamented with flowers and butterflies or quail below maple trees, conventional borders, the whole in varicolored enamels on turquoise. White-enameled backs. Japan. Modern. 517--Pair Archaic Form Vases In bold floral cloisonne enamels in colors on white. Japan. Modern. Height, 6% inches. 518--Water Kettle In cloisonne, decorated with dark red lotus flowers on a green ground. Overhead handle, enameled. Japan. Modern, after old shippo type. Height, 7% inches. 519--Deep Bowl Similarly enameled with varicolored floral designs on turquoise blue in style of old shippo. Japan, about 1840-50. Height, 7 inches. 520--Beautiful Little Cloisonne Stand Decorated with kylin and cloud designs in varicolored enamels on a scroll pattern white ground. Best type of old shippo work. Japan, first half of eighteenth century. Height, 6 inches. 521--Tray Of brilliant cloisonne enamels, decorated with design of falcon perched in branches of a tree-peony and t...
Alfred Owre was an American dentist and promoter of dental education.
Background
Alfred Owre was born on December 16, 1870, in Hammerfest, Norway, the eldest son and second of the seven children of Lars and Laura Cecelie (Owre) Owre, naturalized citizens of the United States. His parents had recently gone back to Norway, where they remained fourteen years. In 1884 the family returned to the United States.
Education
Alfred attended schools in Norway and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and worked his way through the University of Minnesota. In 1894 he received the degree of D. D. S. from that institution and in 1895, the degrees of M. D. and C. M. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, conferred at Hamline University.
Career
Alfred Owre chose to become a dentist and a teacher of dentistry, rather than a physician or surgeon, because he regarded dentistry as "the neglected stepchild" of medicine and surgery. In 1902, after serving successively as assistant, demonstrator, and instructor, Owre became full professor at the College of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, and in 1905, at the age of thirty-four, he was appointed dean of the college. In 1921 Owre was one of those appointed to conduct the Carnegie Foundation survey of dental education, which revealed many abuses and inadequacies in existing systems and resulted in the recommendation of two preparatory years and three years of dental training and the subsequent adoption of this plan, or similar plans, by many of the dental schools of the United States. In 1927 Owre became a member of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, and during the next five years he spent much time and effort in trying to devise plans for the extension and improvement of medical services.
Early in 1927 he accepted the deanship of the School of Dentistry (now the School of Dental and Oral Surgery) of Columbia University, New York, because he thought he would have an opportunity there to place dentistry on the same level with other health services and to bring the cost of dentistry within reach of the lower-income groups. His program, however, brought him into conflict with the organized dentists, as did also the plan he advocated for training large numbers of dental technicians to work under the direction of a few highly educated dental physicians. He was attacked in professional meetings, in dental journals, and in resolutions passed by dental societies. The opposition was increased by Owre's expressed approval, in 1930, of medical and dental education and organization in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and his assertion that "state medicine or its equivalent is bound to come. " Opposition from outside was reinforced by that of the dean's own staff at Columbia, a majority of whom brought charges against him, alleging inefficient administration, unfairness to subordinates, advocacy of plans unsound in the eyes of his faculty, and antagonism to organized dentistry which involved the school in difficulties. He offered his resignation and asked that the charges be investigated. The university granted him leave of absence for sixteen months, which included his sabbatical year.
During this period he visited several European countries. He was particularly impressed by medical organization in Russia and wrote home of his intention to try to establish dentistry in America on a footing of greatly enlarged public service, using the dental school of Columbia University as headquarters. Shortly after his return to the United States, however - in April 1934 - his resignation as dean of the Columbia dental school was finally accepted. He died less than a year later.
Six feet in height, Owre kept his weight down to 125 pounds by a self-imposed dietary regime and by long pedestrian trips. He walked across most of Europe, North America, China, and Japan, covering a total distance estimated at 120, 000 miles.
Connections
On September 1, 1915, Alfred Owre married Franc Charlotte Hockenberger; they had two children, Alice Cecelie and Alfred.