Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections

Expanding on his seminal work The Grammar of Ornament (1856), Jones assembled this compendium of conventionalized motifs observed on Chinese ceramics and cloisonné enamels found in London’s South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) and other noted British collections. The preface states that he aimed to support "the progressive development of the forms of the past, founded on the eternal principles which all good forms of Art display"—an ambition certainly embraced by Moore. Plate 21, shown here, reproduces a series of borders on Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, a type of object notably absent from Moore’s collection. Moore’s library complemented his art holdings, often filling in the gaps for objects he did not actively collect.