Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 391
f Damascus were much prized, and accord-ing to the inventories of the kings of England, France, andGermany, we learn that they were set in gold stands or 372 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. mounts, and were usually presents to Western monarchs,brought by their ambassadors from the East. The cup kept by the… … Fig. 29Q.—Enamelled Oriental Glass Bottle and INIosque Lamp. beauty, both in its elegance of form—as in the wine-glasses, goblets, and cups—and in the beautiful opalescenthues of its delicate colouring. The making of glass in Venice began to assume greatimportance in the fourteenth centur}^, but…
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