Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 242
fact, is used in order toget the gorgeous variety of brilliant colouring and dazzling METAL WORK. 223 effect. Much of the Indian jewellery is of a flimsy cha-racter as regards its lightness and thin nature of thematerial; but the latter is generally of the best quality, andthe artistic workmanship… … Fig. 193.—Primitive Silver Bracelet : Dinajpur, Bengal. (B.) decorating the person, as nothing is uglier than heavvjewellery, which can only be valuable in the light of reprc -senting the wealth of the owner. Some of the Indian jewellery is, however, fairly solid andheavy, as in the chopped gold…
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