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Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington museum and other collections

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 · 1867 · London, S. & T. Gilbert · 95 pictures

Owen Jones's 1867 London folio of 100 chromolithographed plates recording Chinese ornament from porcelain, enamel and lacquer in the South Kensington Museum and private collections, issued for designers and manufacturers. Plates show flat repeating scrollwork, lotus and peony rosettes and banded borders in flat colour on turquoise, teal and cream grounds, usable as tileable patterns, border strips and palettes.

Decoration and ornament · Design

Internet Archive · Clark Art Institute Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0