Decorative Arts - Some Decorative Arts

Some Decorative Arts

  • Ceramic art (that is Pottery)
  • Glassware, including some stained glass and studio glass
  • Furniture
  • Hardstone carving, including pietra dura work and engraved gems
  • metalwork, especially by goldsmiths and whitesmiths
  • jewellery
  • ivory carving and bone carving
  • textile arts
  • Some mosaics, and all micromosaics
  • Wallpaper
  • Fretwork
  • Fold-forming

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