Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 141
ling principle in the decoration of all rounded objects, and everremember that a line which is straight on a Hat surface becomes a curve on around surface (see page I 10). I have given what is a correct decoration for a plate and cup and saucer, butthere are other methods of treatment than those… … GLASS. 127 ornament, and the Egyptians were partial to the plan of rendering a cup as a lotus-flower (Fig. 100). But when they formed a cup thus, they were careful to drawthe flower conventionally and ornamentally, and never produced an imitative work(see page 24). The Chinese treat the flower of…
Decoration and ornament
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