Cistern Floriated Decoration

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Floral pattern with meandering scrolls and volutes against a blue background

From a very large cistern in cloisonné enamel.

Artist

Name:: Jones, Owen
Dates:: 1809-1874
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Ornaments & Patterns
Technique:: Lithograph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Examples of Chinese ornament
Author:: Jones, Owen
Publisher:: London: S. & T. Gilbert, 1867
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Description:

Floral pattern with ornamental, meandering scrolls and volutes against a turquoise blue background. This ornament is described as follows by the author:

From a very large cistern in cloisonné enamel. This magnificent composition is in every way Chinese, and is the very perfection of conventional ornamentation, perfect in distribution of form and colour.

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