A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 290
lity, or perhaps for thesake of variety, glazed tiles occur which have the designleft hollow, and not filled in, according to the usual pro-cess, with clay of a different colour; a careful examinationhowever of thedisposition of theornament will fre-quently shew thatthe original inten-tion w a s to… … = w.-ii ;jt r-. Westell, Devon. cavetio. It must be observed, that instances are very fre-quent, where the protecting glaze having been worn away,the white clay, which is of a less compact quality thanthe red, has fallen out, and left the design hollovf so thatan impression or rubbing may readily…