By art I do not mean painting and sculpture but every kind of decoration, and most kinds of pictorial representation -- the image of a boy's kite or a girl's battledore not less than the design upon a lacquered casquet or enameled vase, -- the figure upon a workman's trowel not less than the pattern of the girdle of a princess, -- the shape of the paper doll or wooden rattle bought for a baby, not less than the forms of those colossal Ni-O who guard the gateways of the Buddha's temples, "etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
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