Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China. Likewise their marine subjects. The whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. ..
A 1759 London pattern book by Paul Decker, engraved and sold for builders, garden owners and cabinetmakers wanting Chinese-style structures, from imperial pavilions to fences and boats. The plates are line engravings of fretwork panels, railings, lattice windows and roof finials, drawn flat with hatched shading — usable as repeatable geometric borders, grille motifs and openwork frames.
