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Grande Tuilerie de Bourgogne Montchanin

1910 · Dijon : Societe Anonyme des Grandes Tuileries Reunies · 193 pictures

A French trade catalogue of 1910 published in Dijon by the Société Anonyme des Grandes Tuileries Réunies, issued by a Burgundy tile works at Montchanin to show architectural terracotta pieces to builders and architects. The pictures are flat, colour-printed plates in orange-red with black outlines, showing finials, columns, a crest-like cresting and a scrolled frieze with dimension marks. A designer might take from them the scale and rhythm of acanthus scrolls, fluted shafts and stepped profiles used in historic French architectural ornament.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- France

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