Title

Arab-Moorish mosaic and glazed clay work, (1898). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Arab-Moorish mosaic and glazed clay work, (1898). 'Arabian-Moresque - Mosaic Work, Faïence - Figs 1, 3 and 4: Wainscottings of glazed clay from the Alhambra [Granada, Spain]. Fig 2: Wainscotting of glazed clay from the mosque of the Cheykhoun at Cairo. Figs 5-7 and 9-11: marble wainscottings inlaid with stucco from Cairo. Fig 8: marble wainscottings inlaid with stucco from Damascus...Arabian and Moorish mosaics are made partly of small pieces of coloured marble, partly of small clay plates, painted and glazed. Sometimes...the designs are cut into the marble plates and the deepenings filled in with coloured cement. In these mosaics the geometrical principle predominates...These mosaics served for covering the floors as well as the lower parts of the walls'. Plate 27 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

Credit line

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Reference

HRM19G33_296

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64,9Mb (3,3Mb) / 12,8in x 19,7in / 3832 x 5922 (300dpi)

Keywords

building interior religious stone arts Middle East country Egypt religion Moorish pattern art book color Egyptian design decorative Arab Arabic Middle Eastern marble palace Islam Islamic Granada Alhambra ornament mosaic tiles location ceramics century architectural inside symmetry floral geometric interior design literature Syria pottery concept symmetrical syrian geometrical stylised stucco flowered glazed tiling Arabian TILED interior decoration Colour Patterned Arabia inlaid 19th century Indoors nineteenth century wall decoration The Print Collector Delftware faience maiolica tessellated pavement TGN lithograph chromolithograph Unknown Dolmetsch glazed pottery Mizraim tessellation Hispano-Arabic BT Batsford E. H faïence Historic Styles of Ornament B. T. Batsford Batsford B. T. BT B T B.T. B.T. Batsford B T Batsford H. Dolmetsch Heinrich Dolmetsch H. Heinrich H Dolmetsch E. Hochdanz Hochdanz E Hochdanz Hochd moresque chromolithograph lithograph