Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 199
TORIC ORNAMENT. clever Greek artist. The style of execution and drawingon these vases may be a little archaic, but the design andbold manner of execution is eminently correct and couldnot be better for the decoration of pottery. The discovery of glass making has been attributed tothe Phoenicians,… … Fig. 237.—Bowl in the Piot Collection, height 6f ins. (P. & C) the Phoenicians traded so much in glass, and for thereasons also that they had large glass manufactories atTyre and other places, that they have received the creditfrom early times of being the inventors of glass. Theoldest dated…
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