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 F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910, author · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 293
th the chisel after it was set ; but, whether that was so or not, the mosaicist has succeeded in what might have been thought to be an impossible task. The idea may have been suggested by an accident which happens constantly to the worker in tesserae. In pushing them into the cement, and pushing… … 256. SUNK ORNAMENT PAINTED. R
Decoration and ornament
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