Decorative dictionary definition

Engraved flowers, views and devices are often combined with decorative cutting.
Most Japanese decorative designs consist of natural objects, treated sometimes in a more 1~hi0 or less conventional manner, but always distinguished by delicacy of touch, graceful freedom of conception and delightfully harmonized tints.
The same free spirit is the secret of much of the originality and the excellence of the decorative art of Japan.
The Buddhist style was probably even more ancient than the Chinese, for the scheme of coloring distinctive of the Buddhist picture was almost certainly of Indian origin; brilliant fi ddhi and decorative, and heightened by a lavish use of S~ t.
He was an artist of eccentric originality, who achieved wonders in bold decorative effects in spite of a studied contempt for detail.