Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 32
, with aniridescent metallic lustresimilar to the Italianmaiolica of the end of thefifteenth and beginning ofthe sixteenth centuries. Theornamentation is lustrousrather than the ground, and is of a golden copper red to apale yellow golden tint. It has been divided into threeclasses : the first has… … Fig. 10.—The Alhambra VaseHispauo-IMoresque. 14 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. is less perfect in manufacture than that of the golden yellowdesigns, and is the oldest. The second class has the colour
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