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 283
elief, and similar motives, in a more or lessnaturalistic style, are employed. In severer decoration, the axis ofsymmetry is the line of bisection of the right angle. The motives aresometimes geometrical (Plate 166. 5 — 6); but more frequently organic(Plate 167. 4—5); and, among artificial forms,… … The Elliptic Panel. Plate 165. 270 ENCLOSED ORNAMENT.
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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