Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington museum and other collections (1867)
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 · London, S. & T. Gilbert · leaf 10
f rendering the idea, but the original idea is evidently Mohammedan.The Moors of the present day decorate their pottery under the same instinct, andfollow the same laws as the Chinese obeyed in their beautiful enamelled vases. TheMoorish artist takes a rudely-fashioned pot or other object, and by a… … Ornament from a Moorish Jar. CHINESE OBNAMENT. formed with spots of a different colour. All these spots are then united by a continuousline, suggested by the peculiar form they have taken on the surface of the object. Thespaces thus created are filled in with other spots and lines, in the direction…
Decoration and ornament · Design
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