Orchids are not used for food but rather serve mainly as ornamental decoration.

For the same reason, ornamental decoration around the edges is often very narrow.

Except the figural zone on the belly, all other areas bore ornamental decoration.

The leaves are use for ornamental decoration and are used in festivals.

The bowls were thin-walled chased gold vessels with copious ornamental decoration.

Only little of the original ornamental decorations remains.

An artist illuminates each book, adding illustrations and ornamental decoration to the pages by hand.

The lined seahorse is also used for ornamental decoration and for Chinese medicine.

In combination with ornamental decoration these techniques formed an alternative to the prevailing painting of walls.

Some of the vessels bear purely ornamental decoration.