The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California

Theory Of Decoration

10. What kind of pictures would you suggest for a bedroom papered with an all-over flower pattern, cream background, with deep green, mulberry and brown tones? How would you arrange them?
11. Who were the Italian primitives? What types of painting did they produce?
12. Given a wall ten feet high and fifteen feet long, with a nineinch baseboard and a picture moulding nine feet from floor, an upholstered sofa six feet long, with back three feet high, two oil paintings two feet long by eighteen inches high, and one four feet long by three feet high. Draw at scale of one-quarter inch to the foot, showing location of pictures and outline of sofa.

Pottery and Porcelain

Foreword

The making of pottery is one of the oldest of industries. It was practiced in prehistoric times by men who learned to fashion food vessels in mud and clay, taking as their models the natural shells and other objects that they found around them. The earliest pottery was made for useful purposes, but having an innate love of beauty, prehistoric man soon learned the rudimentary arts of adorning and enriching the surface of his hand-made productions, embellishing them with patterns having a religious significance, bringing good fortune or having a protective purpose. Gradually other shapes and patterns were introduced, having both a useful and ornamental purpose, and the art of baking clay objects slowly developed as civilization progressed.