Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 385
rtas the Sidonian.The shapes of many of thesevessels are decidedly Greek, andif not Greek in manufacture, havebeen copied from the shapes ofGreek pottery. The colours used were yellow,turquoise, and white on blue,green, or brown, and a commonarrangement of these was in zig-zag or wavy alternating… … .Fig. 295.Phoenician Alabastron. GLASS. 3f»7 with great artistic beauty. The lovely iridescent effecton Roman and otherantique glass is dueto the chemicalchanges of the sur-face decomposition,and in other in-stances to the minuteflaking of the glass,which reflects thelight at variousangles, and…
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