A descriptive catalogue of the collections of tapestry and embroidery in the South Kensington Museum (1888)
South Kensington Museum, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for H.M. Stationery Off. · leaf 146
ly manner. Theorder observed in arranging the ornamental details out-weighs their poor quality of drawing. Style in Scandinavian ornament appears to be based, notso much on beauty of forms as on an ingenuity in scheminginterlacements, though this is also an element in other typicalornaments, such… … FiGUKE VII. is of a specimen from Scandinavia. The grotesque appear-ance of the forms in it is not very remote from that of thosein New Zealand ornament. The subject in Figure VII. isanimal form, and is pronounced by Dr. Hans Hildebrand,Royal Antiquary of Sweden, to be two lions couchant…
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