Heraldry and floral forms as used in decoration; (1922)
Cole, Herbert · London & Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 204
ment and selection of material. Thedeft-fingered Celestial wanted to emphasise the flower rather thanthe leaf and he dared to do so, obtaining by this means the prepon-derance of interest which colour gives in the natural flower over theleaf. This was legitimate in method as he had only one colour… … 194 FLORAL FORMS of the Old English vases and bowls of the eighteenth centuryhave a lovely greenish white ground hke the shell of a palegreen duck-egg. All white pottery is now made raw white—are the delicatelytinted whites of old China a lost art^ I wonder. That they are notthe result of age I am…
Decoration and ornament · Heraldry · Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms
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