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The application of ornament (1888)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 48

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ing it. This will be made clearer by ani example,—let us say pottery, in aid of which so many ofthe applied arts are called in, that we shallnecessarily have to branch out by the wayinto discussion of the wider subject of appliedornament, with which this text-book is con-cerned. The primitive way… … Photo-Tiht, bjJ,Alc.™.n,G,Qu..nS(iiur.,WC Where to Stop in Ornament. 19 time the way most directly conducive toartistic results (Plate 8). Bigotry alone would seek to narrow thescope of a workman to any single process ofmaking. One is fain to own that in thehands of an artist the lathe too may have…

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