Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 227
: the serpent handles and covers arealmost identical. 208 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. About the middle of the seventeenth century silver-smiths work in Germany began to assume a bulbous orlobed character, and gradually became more florid indesign (Fig. 177). This bulbous or gadrooned work wascarried out to… … Fig. 174.—Flemish Salver; Seventeenth Century. (S. K. M.) chased on the repousse surfaces, and often large rich acan-thus-leaves were used, especially on the vases and silverfurniture of Charles II.s time. The lobed panel work ofGermany was developed in England into lozenge and pine-shaped raised…
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