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History of the ceramic art. A descriptive and philosophical study of the pottery of all ages and all nations (1877)

Jacquemart, Albert, 1808-1875, Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Catenacci, H, Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand, 1837-1880 · New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 180

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odern artof Persia ; we believe in the antiquity of many of the specimens, but itis pure Mohammedan art, with its ingenious combinations of straightand curved lines, which one would think an inextricable complication;when it relates solely to happy repetitions, with its mixture of conven-tional and… … PERSIAN FAIENCE PLAQUE, REPRESENTING THE CAABA OR SACRED MOSQUE OF MECCA. tioned above, a compromise which opens to the true believer a backdoor into the domain of iconography. The wall tiles are of two kinds: the one when the tiles are placedtogether furnishes a continuous ornamentation, either in…

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