Old Oriental gilt and enamelled glass vessels extant in public museums and private collections
Gustav Schmoranz's 1899 catalogue of old Oriental gilt and enamelled glass vessels, printed in Vienna and London, records mosque-lamp and ewer forms held in museums and private collections for decorative-arts study. The chromolithographic plates show enamelled glass with gilt inscriptions, medallions, interlaced arabesques and small figure scenes in blue, red and gold on warm cream grounds, offering a designer dense, historical models for surface pattern, calligraphic bands and gilded ornament.
