Examples of Chinese ornament, Owen Carter Jones

This image shows plate lxxviii (= 78). Jones’ original description of this plate from his “description of the plates” (page 9–15), transcribed literally, using jones’ orthography: “from a painted china bottle. This composition is so completely after the persian and indian manner, that it would require no other change than to be coloured after the indian or persian scheme of colouring to be an indian or persian work. ” additional hints by commons users: — the image shows many little scratches, traces of dust etc.;many of these artifacts are already present in the reprint, and must originate either from the original chromolithographic print, or from the offset reproduction process which was needed to produce the reprint. Owen Jones - Examples of Chinese Ornament - 1867 - plate 078 - 300ppi