2-756-621 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Persian architectural ornament, (1898). 'Fig 1: Upper part of a minaret from the mosque Mesdjid-i-Chah. Figs 2-5: Bases and capitals of columns. Fig 6: Wall-border from the portal building of the mosque Mesdjid-i-Chah. Fig 7: Decorated cavetto from the same. Fig 8: Pierced stone window-frame (belonging to Fig 12). Fig 9: Wall-border. Figs 10 and 11: Spandrels from the College Medresseh-Maderi-Chah-Sultan-Hussein. Fig 12: Pierced stone window-arch (the dotted ground means stained glass). Fig 13: Entablature from the Pavilion Tchehel-Soutoun. Fig 14: Stalactite vault from the Pavilion of the eight Paradise-gates. Figs 15-17: Divers dome-points. The whole from Ispahan [Isfahan]...An interesting feature is the frequently occurring pierced stone window-frames, the open spaces being filled in with painted glass'. Plate 18 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]