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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 102

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of the heat, andcoming in contact with the silica of the stoneware clay,forms with it a silicate of soda, which is really a glassglaze. The composition of the ware is, generally speaking,clay and fine sand. Astbury, the potter, in 1720 used whatis considered the best composition—grey clay and… … Fig. 73.—Bellarmine, FulhamStone Ware. 84 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. from moulds of brass or stoneware. Coloured enamelshave also been very much used for decorating later work.The ornaments are single roses, may h\ossou\s, Jietir-de-Its^spirals, small iuterlacings, birds, figures, straight or wavy

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