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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 133

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tgraceful I have seen in such earlywork. I have included two designs,figs. 53 and 54, for brooches, formHolbeins sketches—fanciful andpretty, but he made many moreintricate and ambitious. Compare the good old designs—in which the setting is alwaysadapted to the gems, not thegems, as now, sacrificed… … Fig. 52.—Modern aigrette. APPROPRIATE PATTERNS. 113 head delicately handled, but the upper portion hard,heavy, and trenching on various modern defects.

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