2-701-168 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Architectural Decoration, mosaic work, including border, Pl. 22. from Les Arts Decoratifs de L'Asie Centrale, pub.1883 (folio). From: Les Arts Decoratifs de L'Asie Centrale; Published by the St. Petersburg Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in 1883; study of ornate mosaic work, including border; border combines traditional islamic vegetal patterns and arabesques with a highly geometric and linear central motif; border summonts a pattern of interlacted angled lines that create a series of recurring girih which encircle floral icons.