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More designs, all in shades of blue, taken from Owen Jones’ “Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and other Collections,” published in London in 1867.
Page 33, Plate VI. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n32/mode/1up Page 35, Plate VII. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n34/mode/thumbPage 37, Plate VIII. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n36/mode/1upPage 38, Plate IX. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n38/mode/1upPage 58, Plate XXI, taken from Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and other Collections, published in London in 1867. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n58/mode/1upPage 60, Plate XXII, taken from Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and other Collections, published in London in 1867. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n60/mode/1upPage 70, Plate XXVII, taken from Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and other Collections, published in London in 1867. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n70/mode/1upPage 72, Plate XXVIII, taken from Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and other Collections, published in London in 1867. Collections of the Library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing partners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone/page/n72/mode/1up
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