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Catalec illustrat del Museu Santacana de Martorell

Martorell, Spain. Museu Santacana, Santacana Romeu, Francesc · 1909 · Barcelona, Estampa de Viuda D. Casanovas · 27 pictures

A 1909 illustrated catalogue of the Museu Santacana in Martorell, Spain, printed in Barcelona by Estampa de Viuda D. Casanovas and compiled by Francesc Santacana Romeu for museum visitors and scholars of decorative arts. Its plates show numbered square and rectangular ceramic tiles in polychrome glaze, with yellow, blue, green and ochre palettes, arranged in grids of rosettes, scrolls, foliage, and border strips that a designer could draw on for tile patterns and repeat motifs.

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