London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 609
atneither pure mathematical figures, nor the bodies that approachthem in form, have any particular beauty. Thus, for example,low vessels, such as the plates and dishes {Jigs. 218, 219, &c),whose sides (Hohenform) are very low, have fewer pretensionsto beauty; because broad forms bear in… … sense, the vesselsjigs. 254-. and 258. are much more beautiful thanJig. 253.; at the same time, Jig. 258. is, on account of the beau-tiful eurhythmical proportion of the neck to the lower part,much more beautiful than jig. 254., in which the neck appearstoo short for the other parts of the figure.…
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