Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 286
Fig. 315.—Greek Border with Fret Bands. of large acanthus scrolls on friezes, panels, and pilasters(Fig. 319), and in their large capitals, the ornament wasdesigned with great skill and virility. They used the … Fig. 316.—Greek Ivy Meander Border. softer-leaved variety of acanthus—the mollis—while theGreeks used the spinosus, or prickly-leaved variety. The decorations of the Roman mouldings were lesselegant than those of the Greeks, owing to the contoursbeing segments of circles where the Greeks used forms…
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