Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 427
-wood furniture of the period, and both it andthe Elizabethan are generally speaking offshoots of theFlemish and German phases of the Renaissance. Eliza-bethan ornament is of great variety, the panelling andother arrangements are sometimes composed purely ofstrap-work of a rectangular flat… … Fig- 438.—Elizabethan Panelling, from the Old Guard Chamber, Westminster. animals, as seen in the illustration from an old house atExeter now in Kensington Museum (Fig. 440); another kind RENAISSAXCE ARCHITECTURE AIVD ORXAMENT. 407 is carved in rectangular or curved and notched frames ofcartouche…
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