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Some pictures from Das Farbige Ornament aller Historischen Stile by Alexander Speltz, Leipzig, 1915. This has been republished by Dover several times and by Portland House (Putnams) in 1988 as The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts.
I cannot find born/died dates for the author: the latest listed in the Library of Cnngress catalogue is 1915. However, the images themselves are all much older and are out of cpoyright.
Title: The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts
City: Leipzig
Date: 1915
Total items: 44
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 4]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/wm/big/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-04-200x200.jpg "[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 4]")
This small tile picture depicts a daisy or other flower, with two birds perched on its branches. It is taken from plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 19]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/wm/big/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-19-200x200.jpg "[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 19]")
This small tile picture shows a flower in an oval cartouche, with a squiggly design round it. It is taken from plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 12]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/wm/big/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-12-200x200.jpg "[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 12]")
This small tile picture shows a lion with one paw on a circle; the lion stands on grass with a golf-bunker or sand-pit nearby; in the background, geese fly past on their way to find hidden meanings in the clouds. The illustration is contained within a diamond-shaped border, [...]plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles. [more...] [$]
![[picture: [Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/wm/big/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge-q85-166x200.jpg "[picture: [Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern]")
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern
A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari. [$]
![[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 23]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/wm/big/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-23-200x200.jpg "[picture: Dutch Delft ceramic tile 23]")
This small tile picture shows a person, perhaps a young man, standing up, holding a cane in one hand; he wears a har and stockings, and carries a sword at his left side. There are fleur-de-lys [...]plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles. [more...] [$]
Some pictures from Das Farbige Ornament aller Historischen Stile by Alexander Speltz, Leipzig, 1915. This has been republished by Dover several times and by Portland House (Putnams) in 1988 as The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts.
I cannot find born/died dates for the author: the latest listed in the Library of Cnngress catalogue is 1915. However, the images themselves are all much older and are out of cpoyright.
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