Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 202
gns arein the Renaissance andsometimes in the Gothicstyle, and they are ofteneight feet in height. Someof them are carried in pro-cession on Corpus ChristiDays. Many works in gold and silver are in Spain that havebeen made in Mexico, but of Spanish design, in which formsof American flora and fauna… … Fig. 147.—Spanish Jewel; SeventeenthCentury. (R.) 184 HISTORIC ORNAMENI. The pendant jewel of the seventeenth century shows thebeginnings of the decadence in design (Fig. 147), and thesilver dish (Fig. 148), though very rich in effect, is a pro-nounced step in the direction of unrestrained…
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