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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 235

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 235 — o that the light may shine through. It is morethan possible that enamel of this kind may have been theorigin of stained glass, especially if we allow that the glaziersart was derived from the East, where the windows were ofplaster (195) into which little jewels of glass were embedded.Cloisonne… … and was the The 195. FRAMED IN PLASTER. merely cemented intocells constructed for it.fusion of a glass paste wasa stage in advance, whichsoon developed into an artin itself. The cloisons ofthe Grreco-Bactrian armulet(197) were devised to formcells for inlay, not enamel,and the same thing occurs…

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