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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 50

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centre painted with solid white ornaments on a low whiteground. It is probably the work of the artist GiovanniMaria (1508). The vase (Fig. 30) is a richly decorated specimen of thesame ware; the grotesque masks and arabesques arevigorously drawn, and the ornament generally is a goodexample of that… … Fig. 28.—Embossed Fruit Dish ; Gubbio. (S. K. M.) pottery as an art began when INIonsignor Durante built acastello on the Metauro at Correto in the year 1284,and the names of potteries are recorded that were in exis-tence in 1364 to 1440, The year 1490 began a period ofgreat activity in the…

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