Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 66
in this ware is quite distinctfrom Persian or Damascus wares. Rhodian pottery iscoarser than the two former varieties, and the decorationis brighter and more strongly marked. The ornament isof a very conventional character, and in colour it is charac- POTTERY 47 terised by having a red opaque… … Fig. 43.—Rhodian Dish. A.D. 827, and about the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriespotteries of glazed wares had been established by thelatter. Some examples of their work of these periods havedecorations of animals, figures, birds, and also mock Sara-cenic inscriptions like the Siculo-Arabian…
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