Keywords: Owen Jones - Examples of Chinese Ornament - 1867 - plate 006.png 005 VI 6 007 Part of a pendant Ornament round the top of a magnificent blue-and-white china cistern In the upper border the lines run in one direction round the bowl In the lower one continuous main stem runs through the general forms embracing all the flowers which are geometrically arranged The broad blue line which forms the boundary of the composition is also continuous; and in the form of a pendant arch recalls a form which is common to the Arabian Persian Moresque and indeed all Oriental art The treatment of the shading of the flowers is also Indian in character PD-old-100-1923 Floral designs in China Blue and white porcelain Ceramic bowls Porcelain of China |