Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 77
h said to have been madeof sand. That they were the production of mixed pagansand converts is evident from the existence, along with theinterlaced animals and woven bands nearly equalling in com-plexity those of the illuminator, of certain mysterious figuresanalogous to no Christian symbol. These… … Mystical Figures. From Monuments in Aberdeenshire. (Sculptured Stones of Scotland.Spalding Club.) The origin of interlacing, as a motif in ornament, hasfound an intelligent inquirer in Mr. French of Bolton. Interlacing, he says, is found in an infinite varietyof devices in the earliest sculpture,…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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