Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 246
l (Fig. 193), METAL WORK. 227 The silver filigrain work of India, especially the designsof the Sindh jewellery and that made at Cuttack, Trichi-nopoly, and Travancore, recalls the methods of fabri-cation and design of the ancient Etruscan jewellery. (SeeFigs. 194, 195, 197.) A certain analogy may… … Fig. 198.—Native Gold Jewellerj-of Bombay. (B.) people of India, Thibet, Turkestan to Asia Minor and thecontinent of Europe. Some Indian jewellery, though possessing shapes com-mon to other countries, has very distinctive national char-acteristics in the decoration, which may be seen in…
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