Decorative arts

thumb|A decal being attached to a piece of machinery

stamping process for producing sunken designs in paper or card stock

work of silver

thumb|Palau|Palauan Toluk made from tortoiseshell thumb|upright|Cabinet with tortoiseshell wikt:veneer|veneers thumb|French singing bird box with a case made out of tortoiseshell.Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is a critically endangered species according to the IUCN Red List largely because of its exploitation for this trade. The large size, fine color, and unusual form of the hawksbill's scutes make it especially suitable. The distinctive patterning is referred to in na

architectural style

thumb| thumb| enlargement is a Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with lacquer on the surface of lacquerware, and then metal powder such as gold or silver is sprinkled and fixed on the surface of the lacquerware. The origin of the term maki-e is a compound word of maki meaning "sprinkling" and e meaning "picture" or "design". The term can also be used to refer to lacquerware made with this decorative technique. The term first appeared in the Heian period.

thumb|Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sand paintings, in [[Singapore.]] Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting.

thumb|300px|High-quality Mosan art|Mosan 12th century armlet, somewhat damaged, so showing the cast recesses for the enamel Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel. The piece is then fired until the enamel fuses, and when cooled, the surface of the object is polished. The uncarved portions of the original surface remain visible as a frame for the enamel designs; typically, they are gilded in medieval work.

radio receiver / gramophone combination furniture

popular form of regional decoration in South Asia

form of decoration dominated by spiralling scrolls

method of applying printed designs to three-dimensional surfaces

making of artistic works entirely or primarily of paper

Form of interior design

thumb|Imitation wood grain on plastic flooring

iconographer (1772-1815)

Clay with cellulose fiber

stained-glass windows made by Azerbaijani masters

architecture essay by Adolf Loos

thumb|150px|No. 14 chair thumb|Cradle by Gebrüder Thonet (ca. 1870) Bentwood objects are made by wetting wood (either by soaking or by steaming), then bending it and letting it harden into curved shapes and patterns.

Austrian painter

French painter (1804-1886)

thumb|"Gathering Ferns" (Helen Allingham) from [[The Illustrated London News, July 1871]]

style of ornamental decoration

sofa designed by Salvador Dalí

thumb|upright|Moresque ornament print by Peter Flötner. thumb|upright|Mannerist grotesque ornament drawing by the Dutch painter and architect [[Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1609), of around 1604. The figures of the fauns at bottom, and almost the dragons at top, are moresques in the figure sense.]] Moresque is an obsolete alternative term to "Moorish" in English, and in the arts has some specific meanings. By itself, the word is used to describe the stylized plant-based forms of tendrils and leaves found in ornament and decoration in the applied arts in Renaissance Europe that are derived fro

right|thumb|Arabesque (European art)|Arabesque-like diapering on the field of the shield of the See of Worcester: Argent, ten torteaux four, three, two, and one thumb|Detail of Chinese carved lacquer snuff bottle with Children at Play, and three types of diaper backgrounds, representing ground, water and sky. 18th century Diaper is any of a wide range of decorative patterns used in a variety of works of art, such as stained glass, heraldic shields, architecture, and silverwork. Its chief use is in the enlivening of plain surfaces.

furniture leg with a double curve, convex above concave

thumb|280px|Plate with gadrooned background from the Meissen porcelain [[Swan Service, ca. 1738]] Gadrooning is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in relief in a series. In furniture and other decorative arts, it is an ornamental carved band of tapered, curving and sometimes alternating concave and convex sections, usually diverging obliquely either side of a central point, often with rounded ends vaguely reminiscent of flower petals. Gadrooning, derived from Roman sarcophagi and other antiquities, was widely used during the Italian Renaissance, and in the classicising phas

thumb|A vendor's stall with various parol designs

Marbleizing (also spelt marbleising) or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble. It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive. Faux marbling is a special case of faux painting used to create the distinctive and varied patterns of marble - the most imitated stone by far. thumb|Faux painting by Andre' Martinez in the Colorado State Capitol 2005 thumb|Giotto, [[Scrovegni Chapel.]] thumb|Giotto, [[Scrovegni Chapel.]]

bridges in Netherlands

Baroque architectural style in Scandinavia and Germany

display that represents the interior design and decorative art of a particular historical social setting

19th-century furniture style

artistic movement derivated from Art Nouveau and present in late-19th-century in Switzerland

German painter (1869-1926)

style of art from 1837 to 1901

German painter (1859-1930)

thumb|Contemporary cellarette, built in 2009

high quality three-dimensional work in the decorative arts

Austrian painter (1858–1925)

architectural style

collection of Renaissance art in the British Museum

German painter (1831-1876)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1742-1819)

Czech painter (1871–1939)

craft work of Pakistan

thumb|The crown (venets) and the tsata from Pskov, The Pskov Museum, 17th c. Tsata () is a form of jewelry in the shape of a turned over crescent, typically made from gold or silver. It is placed at the bottom of a riza as a part of the icon decoration in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The tsata looks like a gorget or neck ring. The word derives from the Old Church Slavonic world tsęta (цѧта; meaning "small coin") which in turn derives from . It is specifically attached to the riza so that it is placed under the face of a saint, and it typically fastened by its edges to the inner bottom edge of

thumb|300px|The Royal Gold Cup, 23.6 cm high, 17.8 cm across at its widest point; weight 1.935 kg. [[British Museum]]

thumb|250px|Micromosaic brooch set in black glass, c. 1875, of the Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon thumb|250px|Byzantine mosaic icon, 45 cm high, 13th century. Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images. Surviving ancient Roman mosaics include some very finely worked panels using very small tesserae, especially from Pompeii, but only from Byzantine art are there mosaic icons in micromosaic with tesserae as small as the best fr

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Dutch painter (1737-1807)

19th century art style

German painter (1766-1837)

hybrid artistic style

thumb|A Georgian japanned tin tea tray—severely worn—black lacquer and gilt made in Birmingham, UK

museum in Gent

style in Western art