Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 63
e in Persia from a very earlydate. Some of them are beautiful in colour, havingusually a deep lapis-lazuli blue ground or white. Some-times the design is complete on one tile, but generally awhole tile has only a portion of the pattern, many tilesbeing required to make up the complete pattern (Fig.… … Fig. 40.—Persian Wall Decoration. fayence fine ware, or imitated Chinese porcelain. The bodycomposition of the tiles resembles that of the old bricksthat are found in great quantities in the ruinous mounds ofRhages iRhe), where also many fragments of tiles havebeen found, and some remains of…
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