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Chinese painting, (1898). 'Figs 1-5 and 9-13: borders; Figs 6-8: continuous patterns of painted China vases, the greater part of which are to be found in South Kensington Museum [Victoria & Albert Museum, London]. In Fig 1 an inclination towards Persian manner is to be observed in composition and character. The yellow colour, used in Figs 4, 6 and 10, is gold on the original objects...The principal native plants used for decorative patterns are the leaves and flowers of the tea-shrub, roses, camellias, melons etc'. Plate 11 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)