Description
Owen Jones (British, 18091874)
Indian ornament, 1856
From The Grammar of Ornament
On his grand tour of Europe and the Near East, young architect Owen Jones (British, 18091874) was inspired to create an accurate and unprecedented record of coloured decorations and ornamental motifs from many periods, countries, and cultures. This Indian design is from Jones's sumptuous collection of exotic patterns, The Grammar of Ornamenta mid-nineteenth-century masterpiece of chromolithography. - INDIVIDUAL ITEM RRP £1.992
