Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 232
ig. 182). Mouldings were plainer, andbroad spaces of convex and concave shapes producing amassive and, in many cases, an elegant appearance(Figs. 182, 183), which gave to the Queen Anne plate amark of great distinction. About 1750 the forms in silver work partook, in many-instances, of the… … PIf. 181.—Silver Table at Windsor Castle. dividing lines of the design composed of fillets of beads(Figs. 185 and 187). The beaded style of silversmithswork and in all metal work, pottery, and furniture of thisperiod was due to the development of classic design thattook place in France and in…
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