Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 173
ma and OvoloMouldings. 1 and 3. Drawings to illustrate the origin of the pattern. 2. Graeco-Doric, painted. 4. Leaf, Erechtheum, Athens. 5 and 6. Corrupt leaf, (Botticher). 7. Roman leaf, (Jacobsthal). 8. Greek egg-and-tongue, Erechtheum, Athens. 9. Campana egg-and-tongue, Graeco-Italic, Campana… … B. FREE ORNAMENTS. Those ornaments, which are applied to suggest the end or finishof an object, may be classed in a group which, following an ex-pression already introduced, are termed free ornaments, the wordfree implying not a severely-enclosed Band or Panel, but a freely-treated Edge-ornament.…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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