London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 610
ettiness is not always beautiful.The two lachrymatories (figs. 255, 256.), which I introducehere among the drinking-vessels merely by way of example, dis-play the same. It remains for me still to give some examples of the symmetryof objects, as an essential condition of the beautiful; and I se-lect… … and, more especially, in the plastic art, it is of the greatest im-portance. Figs. 257. 2.59. and 261. are three different water pots, whoseforms, though possessing no particular beauty, are yet interest-ing to us from their characteristic handles. The handle ofJig. 259., for example, makes this…
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