Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 40
ly seemedto be a monopoly of the Gubbio workshops, for it isknown that many of the Italian factories sent their piecesto Maestro Giorgio at Gubbio to have the ruby and thegold lustre added as a finish to parts of the designs. Maiolica was made at Venice in the sixteenth century,also at Forli,… … Fig. i6.—Pilchcr; Callagyiuk) JMiuuliai. (S. K. M.) An early method of decorating maiolica pottery is knownas sgraffitto-work, in which the patterns are scratchedor incised into the ground: this was a favourite method of 22 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. executing outdoor plaster decoration in Italy. It…
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