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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 227

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ricks at Susa. (P. & C.) enamelled bricks and tiles, in strong blue, orange, white,and brown colouring, as the archers and lions friezesfrom Susa (now in the Louvre) testify. These two worksare reproduced in colours in Perrot and Chipiez History ofArt in Persia. The upper part of the… … s1) co o .a ao bi enamelling tiles and bricks from the Chaldeans, and theyhave never lost it. Under the Moslem rule in the fourteenthand fifteenth centuries, the tiles and majolica that weremade for the decoration of the mosques reached a high stage ART IN ANCIENT PERSIA. 207 1 _— of perfection,…

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