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Summary

Owen Carter Jones: Examples of Chinese ornament  Template:Owen Jones - Examples of Chinese Ornament - Plate
Author
Owen Carter Jones  (1809–1874)  wikidata:Q1380862 s:en:Author:Owen Jones
 
Owen Carter Jones
Alternative names
Owen Jones; Owen C. Jones
Description British architect, lithographer and designer
Date of birth/death 15 February 1809 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1874 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1829 Edit this at Wikidata–1874 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
author QS:P50,Q1380862
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Examples of Chinese ornament
Subtitle Selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections
Publisher
S. & T. Gilbert
Description

This image shows plate LXXXVI (= 86). Jones’ original description of this plate from his “Description of the plates” (page 9–15), transcribed literally, using Jones’ orthography:

“Portion of a painted china Dish: four dragons guarding the labyrinth form the subject of the composition, the flowers are most artistically arranged in the fragmentary style.”

Additional hints by Commons users:

  • The “four dragons” (as Jones calls them) do not look like typical dragons in Chinese art. Could these four creatures be some kind of birds, maybe a Phoenix?!
  • Again, like in his comment on plate LXXIII, Jones calls the Chinese character in the centre a “labyrinth”. But isn’t it just a stylized Shou character, or something similar?!
About the file format: I have added the images of the plates as individual image files, and not the complete book as a single PDF/DjVu file, because (a) the quality of the individual images is somewhat better than the quality of the images in a PDF/DjVU file, (b) for many users it is easier to use the individual image files than to extract any image from the PDF/DjVu file first, and (c) the use of individual images for the plates allows us to add special categories or other hints to any of the images, as appropriate. — The original image files on the website (see Source) are JPEG 2000 (.jp2) files, but JPEG 2000 is not a completely free file format and (therefore?!) currently not supported by Commons; saving the image files in JPEG format would have introduced some loss of quality; therefore I have converted the image files to PNG files.
Language English
Publication date 1867
publication_date QS:P577,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Place of publication London
Source Internet Archive

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