Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 60
and at others a blue ground.The plate (Fig. 36) is an example of this ware. The designon this ware is in the pure Persian character. Another kind, and by far the most numerous, are thewares of a coarse porcelain variety, not only made in imita-tion of Chinese porcelain, but decorated to imitate… … Fig. 37.—Flower \ase, Persian, with Chinese decoration. In the reign of the Persian Shah Abbas the Great (A.D.1586-1628J the route for travellers and merchants fromChina to Europe lay across Persia, and many objects of 42 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. merchandise were imported from China to Persia, in-cluding…
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