Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 35
2) ART IN DECORATION involved in the beautifying of the egg-cup. Figure io is another mode of treating this small object different from those already given. In the case of (fig. 6) the rose flowing from a continuous stem might have been painted on the surface or it might have been carved in relief,… … Fig. 6. Fig. io. relief without any attempt being made at the maintaining of this simple curve. The artist, in fact, in this instance, would have appeared to think more of his ornament, than of the object which the ornament beautifies. Let us now suppose for the sake of clearness that the dome of…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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