Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 55
such spaces inprivate houses, frescoes and wall-painting in churchesand public buildings, and the skill with which theancients decorated these central parts of their vasesand bronze cistae is well known to us all. CHAPTER V. T T AVING previously considered the principal elements■*•■*■ of ornament,… … follows :— First, uniform surface decoration, known as diapering. Second, horizontal bands and stripes, as friezes, &c. Third, perpendicular bands, as panels of pilasters, &c. Fourth, symmetrical arrangements used as centraldecorations. Fifth, ornament composed of any two of the above.…
Decoration and ornament
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