Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 80
te fitness, takes rank before symbolism or the suggestion of hiddenmeanings; and it is claimed that the highest type of ornament, either forfurniture or for any other purpose, is the purely ideal, and of this the bestexamples are to be found in the Grecian, the Saracenic, and the EarlyEnglish. The… … Frescoes executed under Raphaels Direction. THE ORNAMENT. the labyrinth by no means suggesting here, as it did in the Egyptian, thethree thousand chambers under Lake Moeris, and the egg and arrow of theechinus standing for mere effect of light and shadow, and for no type ofdeath and the…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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