The tendency of English design to massiveness and surface decoration contrasts with the vertical and linear tendency in much colonial design.
Sometimes a receptacle is just a receptacle, but usually it is much more: an instrument of ritual, an expression of communal aesthetics, an ingenious use of material or an occasion for surface decoration.
"The influence is about surface decoration, not ideological ideas," Ms. Stritzler-Levine said.
"Honest and beautiful in terms of design, color or surface decoration.
During the Zhou period, its surface decoration was richly patterned and embellished.
Forms, purposes, techniques and surface decoration vary tremendously and to illuminating effect.
The beauty of buncheong, however, is less in its third dimension than in its surface decoration.
Carved surface decoration was largely replaced by colour, through the use of paint, veneers, or inlays of contrasting wood.
The Secaucus Transfer, which has the cruciform floor plan of a great cathedral, is inherently grand, but it hides its grandeur under muddy surface decoration.
The incorporation of a surface decoration or heterostructure formation technique can improve their sensing performance further.
