Plate XLVI, part of a ceiling

Category

Library Item

Item no

30824

Title

Details and ornaments from the Alhambra, plate XLVI, part of a ceiling.

Description

This star design of part of the ceiling is from the portico of the Court of the Fish Pond. The pattern is in blue, brown, red and green.

Artist / maker

Jones, Owen

Date

1845

Size

45.0 x 31.0 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Star-shaped patterns are very common within the Islamic world, especially for ceilings. Owen Jones exported this idea to England designing ceilings following this scheme. According to proposition no. 7, interstices may be also filled with ornament, as here is done with the gold, blue and red decoration.

(Jones set out thirty-seven propositions or general principals in the Grammar of Ornament which aimed to improve the general artistic standards through mass education. Find out more about Owen Jones and his design aesthetic and ideals from the Victoria and Albert Museum.)

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