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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 234

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 234 — ), forestallingthus by long centuries our so-called encaustic tilework.The modern tiles here given(194) are a development ofthe old encaustic process.The design is impressed inplastic clay, and clay ofdifferent colours is laid intothe cells thus given—or, asa matter of fact, piled onand scraped… … 194. CHAMPLEVE TILES INLAIDWITH CLAYS. ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. carving (189) the stones were set opaque. In the ByzantineGothic bowl opposite they were set in fretwork of gold.The cells were not merely dug out but cut through, givingin miniature the effect of a stained glass window, an…

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