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 212
The Base. (Plate 123—124.) It is unquestionably more beautiful when something in theshape of a Base is interposed between the shaft of a column andthe substructure on which it rests, than when, as in the Doric style,the column rises without any such base. Bases suggested by theradical leaves of…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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