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Persion ceramic tile border: flowers and vines, bright versionL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This is a more brightly coloured version of the Persian ceramic tile full-page border. Note that the brightness of the dark blue background may vary as the image is resized or sharpened.

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, flowers, leaves, vines, colour, blue, floriated borders, green

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Added: 2019-01-06

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Fig. 57. No. 6.—Persian Ceramic Tile BorderL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This full-page border design is taken from ancient persian ceramic building tiles. The original tiles go from the centre of one rosette to the next, and are 10 inches (25cm) from joint to joint. There [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, floriated borders, flowers, vines, leaves, blue, green, colour

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Added: 2019-01-06

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Inhabited Initial letter B, Anglo-SaxonL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This capital letter B is from an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript from about 1,000 years ago; the book does not identify the exact source but notes that although the decoration is in the Celtic styl [...]

Keywords: letterb, initials, calligraphy, inhabited initials, historiated initials, celtic knotwork, calligraphy, gold, yellow, colour

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Added: 2014-03-08

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Anglo-Saxon decorative initial B in the Celtic knotwork styleL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

An Anglo-Saxon capital B with the interior decoration removed, making it eaier to reuse.

The original initial

The Byzantine saint on his throne

Keywords: letterb, initials, calligraphy, celtic knotwork, gold, yellow, colour

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Added: 2014-03-08

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Byzantine Saint seated, with bookL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

A saint, by the hair probably female, sits on a chair and points to a book held in one hand in this detail from an illuminated letter B from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. She (or he) has a halo, bare fee [...]

Keywords: people, saints, religion, halos, bare feet, chairs, women, colour

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Added: 2014-03-08

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Celtic knotwork dragon ornament/initialL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This decorative initial was taken from a ninth century psalter [unidentified in the book] and is said to be derived from “drakslingor” style runic carvings—that is, a Viking-age style using animal-ins [...]

Keywords: initials, celtic knotwork, drakslingor, lettero, red, gold, yellow, colour

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Added: 2014-03-08

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Fig. 99 No. 7.—Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.L’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This gold full-page border from the ninth century features knotwork at the upper corners and two lions on the top. I also made a simplified version of this border.

Keywords: borders, celtic knotwork, colour, animals, lions, yellow, gold

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Added: 2014-06-08

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Border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish SchoolL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This gold full-page border features knotwork at the upper corners and two lions on the top. It is a detail from Fig. 99-7, which shows a much more ornate border dating from the 9th century.

Keywords: borders, celtic knotwork, colour, animals, lions, yellow

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Added: 2014-06-07

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Fig. 99 No. 8.—Anglo-Saxon Initial letter NL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This initial letter N in the Carolingian style was used as a decorative initial for the start of a copy of John’s Gospel (beginning In Principio, or In the beginning; this is the N from “In”). The Gos [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, lettern, initials, colour, celtic knotwork

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Added: 2015-09-08

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Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With JewelsL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This fifteenth century border originally would have surrounded a page of an Italian manuscript; it includes portraits of religious figures as well as bas-relief pictures of pearls. The background may [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, portraits, colour, cherubs, putti, people, men, beards, nudity, boys, religion, devils, kings

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Added: 2020-09-25

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Horizontal vintage border with female angelsL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This 15th century border includes a monogram set in a circle which is surrounded by pearls and supported by two winged women with lion’s feet, and from whome spring vines and foliage. I have added the [...]

Keywords: borders, angels, women, mythical creatures, wings, monograms, vines, colour

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Added: 2020-10-23

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Seventeenth-Century TapestryL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

The Biblical scene illustrated here is where the fisthermen are having no luck and Jesus says, cast your nets on the other side of the boat; they do, and get lots of fish. The story does not make much [...]

Keywords: fishermen, biblical scenes, tapestries, textile art, neb, birds, herons, boats, bare feet, beards, colour, jesus, borders, cherubs

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Added: 2021-02-01

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