A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . Tiles of Arabic Decoration. specimens, which have rarely fallen under the examina-tion of Europeans interested in ceramic history. Butwhether from Damascus, Rhodes, or elsewhere, they showthe characteristics of the Arabic decoration, and serveour purpose to illustrate the style of decoration employedprior to, as well as for some time after, the Moorish occu-pation of Spain. These came from ancient Mameluketombs near Cairo. The enamel of these tiles is of hard paste, not purely 40 HISTORY OF POTTERY. white; the designs are arborescent,
A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . Tiles of Arabic Decoration. specimens, which have rarely fallen under the examina-tion of Europeans interested in ceramic history. Butwhether from Damascus, Rhodes, or elsewhere, they showthe characteristics of the Arabic decoration, and serveour purpose to illustrate the style of decoration employedprior to, as well as for some time after, the Moorish occu-pation of Spain. These came from ancient Mameluketombs near Cairo. The enamel of these tiles is of hard paste, not purely 40 HISTORY OF POTTERY. white; the designs are arborescent, terminating withbuds or blossoms, curved lines forming a checker-workwith ornamented centres, or diagonal lines, with similareffect. Other designs much employed by them were equallyexcellent, but executed in that peculiarly incorrect waywhich illustrates the imperfect knowledge of art—povertyof materials, and want of precision ; the geometric inaccu-racy being noticeable in those specimens where the sec-tions of the drawing do not balance each other, t
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