Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 233
heir style. Light wreaths, medallions,fillets of beads, festoons, masks, feet and legs of animalscomposed the decoration of the Adams style. The brothers John and Robert Adam had travelled in 21 + HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Italy, and had brought with them pronounced classic ideaswhich not only influenced… … Fig. 182.—Wine Fountain ; 1710. (C. about this period in silversmiths work. The Louis-Seize candlestick (Fig. 189) is one of a pair from theJones Collection in the South Kensington Museum, and isan admirable example of the style ; though it is said tohave been made at Turin in Italy in 1783, it is…
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