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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 526

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e and red quarried flooring is per- haps the most elementary expression of decorative ceramic art, constituting an intermediate zone, vAX; wherein the useful and ornamental blend together, iHf H rather than any serious decorative attempt. This arises not so much from absence of artistic pos-… … cost by simple means, and still fulfil the hygienic Fig. 198. — Two modes of laying needs of the case as satisfactorily as more expensive floor-quarries. products ; at the same time not necessarily offend- ing good taste, nor presenting a surface altogether devoid of interest. For plastic-made red…

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