1.   And when they were used, most can be traced to George Brookshaw, a now undeservedly obscure English decorative painter turned cabinetmaker.

2.   Coleman commissioned a decorative painter to stripe the foyer with a design his client found in a book on Moorish art.

3.   Eve Ashcraft, a New York decorative painter who worked on several projects with Jed Johnson, described how he was her barometer when it came to quality.

4.   Judging from the patterns and colors of his other pieces in the show, Ofili is a very good decorative painter.

5.   Matisse and Tiepolo were great decorative painters, a pejorative description only if your notion of decorative ends with Mario Buatta and chintz.

6.   Ms. Dockray, the illustrator and decorative painter, remembers the moment of her conversion.

7.   My accomplice in all this, Chuck, is a decorative painter whose collections include cookie jars, tin noisemakers and Lu-Ray Pastel dishes.

8.   The second man, a decorative painter who put clouds on the bedroom ceilings and a jungle theme in the bathroom, cleared out most of his personal belongings.

9.   Where other decorative painters merely sketch the veins of marble, she gives us the full portrait.

10.   This features works of early decorative painters to contemporary artists.