Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 62
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… … Fig. 39.—Persian Tile ; Seventeenth Century. ruins of the palace of Shah Abbas II. (1642-1666), nearIspahan. It has a blue ground with white embosseddecorations and black pencillings, and is lustred. 44 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Wall tiles have been in use in Persia from a very earlydate. Some of them are…
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