Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 61
ith 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 great quantities of Chinese… … Fig. 38.—Persian Water-bottle ; imitated Chinese decoration. with and without the metallic lustre in the days of, andanterior to the reign of, Shah Abbas, but since his timethe art has declined, and nothing but a coarse and in-artistic pottery has been made in recent times. As a rule POTTERY. 43…
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