AND SURFACE DECORATION 243 is taken from a pavement design in the collection of drawings, formed by Mirza Akber, the Persian architect. Oriental art supplies many very beautiful and VI. sometimes very elaborate examples of curved divid- Oriental ing lines, and among these the 'cloud patterns', as… … FIG. 270. FIG. 271. important. They are sometimes highly decorated with conventional floral work and show curious traces of the influence of other schemes of design. An example, highly enriched with conventional scroll- work, from a Turkish glazed earthenware tile, is given in Fig. 271. The same…
Decoration and ornament
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