Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 284
ig. 310.—Greek Frets. in a symbolic sense, but under the hands of Greekartists had lost all their former meaning, and weredeveloped and partly transformed into a wealth of purelyaesthetic forms. The simplest forms were frets or the so-called keypattern (Figs. 310, 311, and 315). The word meander is… … Fig. 311.—Greek Caned Fret. on flat bands, and also as the decoration of torusmouldings (Figs. 312 and 313J. The Greeks used the honeysuckle pattern in an endlessvariety of forms both in carving and in painting, examplesof which are at Figs. 314 and 315. B Fig. 312.—Treble Guilloche Ornament. The…
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