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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 220

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 220 — that he is trespassing. The simple device of scratching on wet c\a^ with a point—practised by the first savage who ever thought of orna-menting his rude pottery, of digging into it with a knife, orotherwise impressing it (as the Assyrians did when they dugthe cuneiform inscriptions into their… … 173- PERSIAN EARTHENWARE WITH DIAPER PICKED OUTOF THE LUSTRED GROUND. painter has been known to expatiate upon the dehcacy of thepainted ornament on a gilt frame, when as a matter of factthe surface of the gold had simply been covered with a coatof paint and the pattern picked out of it \\ith a…

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