Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 80
XIII. Irregular Spirals. … 70 ARBOR VIT/E. The exaggeration of this natural feature in the spiral results in aseries of trumpet-shaped funnels, and rapidly becomes associated inour minds with cornucopias disgorging all sorts of good things.There are delightful instances of this convention among the Byzantineivory carvings.…
Decoration and ornament
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