Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are shown as, e.g., ‘I^{er}’. The single footnote has been placed to follow the paragraph in which it was referenced. There are copious illustrations, which appear here as [Illustration: <caption>], and have been moved slightly to fall on paragraph breaks. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration: REDUCED FAC-SIMILE OF A BORDER. From an edition of “Herodotus” _Printed at Venice in the year 1470._ ] HISTORIC ORNAMENT =Treatise on= DECORATIVE ART AND ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT _POTTERY; ENAMELS; IVORIES; METAL-WORK; FURNITURE; TEXTILE FABRICS; MOSAICS; GLASS; AND BOOK DECORATION_ BY JAMES WARD AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT” * * =With Three Hundred and Seventeen Illustrations= LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED 1897 PREFACE. [Illustration] This work is a continuation of the former volume on the subject of Historic Ornament, and treats of the historical development of ornament and decoration as illustrated in furniture, pottery, enamels, ivories, metal work, including goldsmiths’, silversmiths’, and jewellers’ work, textile fabrics, mosaic, glass, and book decoration. Though each volume may be considered complete in itself as far as it has been possible to consider the subjects therein treated in the dimensions of this work, at the same time the student is respectfully advised to read both volumes, as a few subjects which are necessarily only slightly noticed in the former treatise, particularly those belonging to the Minor Arts, are more fully treated in the present work. J. WARD. CONTENTS. [Illustration] CHAPTER I. PAGE