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Examples of Chinese ornament : selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, South Kensington Museum · 1867 · London : S. & T. Gilbert ... · 2 pictures

Examples of Chinese Ornament, published in London in 1867 by Owen Jones and the South Kensington Museum, gathers plates of decorative patterns drawn from objects in the Museum and other collections. The first picture is a page of plate descriptions, while the second is a circular plate of green chrysanthemum-like blossoms set in a dense blue spiral ground, a layout a designer could adapt for radial motifs and tiled borders.

Decoration and ornament

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