Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 208
ill the volutes(Fig. 154). The lower boss isrichly ornamented, but theother five are plain. Threepairs of graceful branchesspring from the central stemto hold the lights. The whole design is a remi-niscence of the Jewish seven-branched candlestick. Onesmaller in size is in the Brunswick Cathedral,… … Fig. 152.—Gloucester Candlestick;Twelfth Century. igo HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Sometimes they were made in the form of a human head,with a band or ribbon around it set with gems. This kind
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