The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 87
ample is partlywrought and partly cast. Foot-scrapers, fastened into blocks of stone ormarble beside doorsteps, also lent themselves to inter-esting manipulation. They were both simple and 60 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ornate, but always well proportioned. The illustrationsshow how elaborately… … Fig. 2. Weather-vane, wrought iron, from the mill built by William Penn, SamuelCarpenter, and Caleb Pusey, at Chester, Pennsylvania, 1699. Collection of Pennsylvania Historical Society. tendrils, or other ornaments that graced the stock, itwas not unusual for the peak to bear an…
Decoration and ornament · Antiques
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