Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 16
peculiar feature of this school is, that it often substitutes theornament itself for the thing to be ornamented, as illustrated inthe accompanying examples; in which the natural objects areso mismanaged as to be principah: flame proceeding from a / ORNAMENT. 11 flower, a basket on an animals head… … A Gas Jet.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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