Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 34
ot a monochrome golden yellow tint, with the ornamentof a small geometric character, and Spanish or Moresque POTTERY. escutcheons. This variety is of Spanish origin of the thir-teenth and fourteenth centuries. The third class has the ornament partly rendered in col-oured enamels, and has golden… … Fig. 12.—Alhambra Tile. (S. K. M.) century the third class of wars was probably imitated bythe Italians. The process of the manufacture of lustred earthenwarewas introduced into Italy by Arabian or Spanish workmenfrom the Balearic Isles. A beautiful vase of elegant shape with large…
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