Illustrated catalogue of period ornaments cast in composition and wood fibre for woodwork-furniture
A trade catalogue issued around 1900 by the Decorators Supply Corp of Chicago, selling cast composition and wood-fibre ornaments to furniture makers, cabinet shops and building contractors. Photographic plates show ornaments arranged in rows against dark grounds, each numbered and sized: acanthus scrolls, rosettes, swags, cartouches, pilaster drops, egg-and-dart and bead moldings, festoons and putti, giving designers a stock of period ornament in raised relief with strong light-and-shadow modeling.
