A catalogue of the museum of ornamental art, at Marlborough House (1854)
Great Britain. Department of Science and Art, Museum of Ornamental Art · London: G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode · leaf 24
ER, ENAMELLED. Manufactured at Lahore. Purchased at £7, from the E.xhibition of 1851. Observations.— P\\\s small Cup furnishes a valuable illustration of the principles of ornamentation. Each line is exactly what it should be, to give value to the surface on which it is placed, and to assist in the… … M 20.-DRINKING CUP, SILVER-GILT AND ENAMELLED. Manufactured at Kangra. Purchased at .£"4 ds., from the Exhibition of 1851. Observations. — In this example the general effect might, perhaps, have been imjiroved by the addition of purple enamel to balance the green, Avliich is in excess. M 21.—…
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