Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic : comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)
Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire : W. J. Furnival · leaf 130
isseurs never tire of praising Persian tiles. Mr. Sparkes, of the Royal College of Art, said : — “ Persian tiles looked as if a piece of glass had actually been melted down on the surface, so enormously thick was the glaze. That thickness was one of the greatest factors to the pleasure one had in… … Fig. 42. — Persian tile, seventeenth century. arities of all alkaline glazes was their {By permission op the proprietors of “ The extraordinary brilliance . From Connoisseur .”) about the eleventh to the seventeenth century the Persians were perhaps the best decorative artists the world had ever…
Pottery · Tiles · Mosaics · Enamel and enameling
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