Published in 1856 owen joness 1809shy74 seminal grammar of ornament provided an accessible sourcebook for students of design which drew upon the best of decoration gleaned from across world cultures expounding his theories on the use of colour and polychrome patterning as an antidote to stark neoclassical decoration jones sought to celebrate ornament notably commenting that quottrue art consists of idealising and not copying the forms of naturequot and included many examples of pers