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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 87

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knowing, as we now know — thanks to Dr. Petrie — that equally artistic enamelled tiles were employed in the days of Akhenaten, 1400 B.C., if indeed some of the relics of Tell el Yehudiyeh are not themselves spoils from Tell el Amarna. Mr. Henry Wallis makes sparse reference to Egyptian glazed… … Fig. 17. — Relief tile. Tell el Yehudiyeh. in ceramic art more masterly than the {By permission of Grevel & Co.) modelling of the human figures and the animal forms ; the lions especially are of sculpturesque dignity. The types of the different nationalities (prisoners of war) are seized with an…

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