Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 223
way as the capital. It is of the shape 202 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. known as Campaniform, and consists of an inverted bellof beautiful contour, richly decorated with falling leaves,a torus moulding and fillet connecting it with the shaft(Fig. 253). Another capital has, instead of the bull heads, a… … fig, 259.—Temple in a Royal Park. (B.M.) (P. & C.) hardly be called beautiful (Fig. 255). It belongs to thehypostyle hall of Xerxes, at Persepolis. The shaft of the Persian column is channelled or flutedin nearly all cases, and the number of flutings is verygreat, being from thirty-two to…
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