Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 383
e, these surfaces had tobe cut away to a certain depth so that the mosaics wouldcome flush when finished with the original surface. Thetessera were inserted into a bed of red mastic cement, madechiefly of a mixture of red lead and linseed oil, a cementwhich ultimately sets as hard as the stone… … ^ Fig. 293.—Indian ^fosaic, from the Taj Mehal. Spain—in the form of small tiles—aziilejos—of glazedearthenware cut into geometric shapes, from which theymade up their characteristic rectilinear patterns, and usedthis form of decoration to a great extent for walls, butrarely for floor pavements…
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