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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 234

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the effects of the reiter- ated steps of the faithful, and replace at little expense the costly mosaics.” (Hist. Cer. Art, p. 232.) At Caen, in Normandy, a pavement was found, the separate tiles of which were emblazoned with heraldic bearings. This pavement is supposed to have belonged to a… … Fig. 103. — Incrusted tile from Paris. Fig. 104. — Incrusted tile from Paris. (Forrer Coll. ) (Forrer Coll.) west bore the arms of William’s followers, and between these were orna- mental compartments of tiles formed into a maze. Of the state of this pavement at the time of the French Revolution,…

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