Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 255
egreeof elaboration. While the shapes of the lock-plates were of a decidedSaracenic character, the design of the pattern ornamenta-tion was either of an elaborate architectural composition, asin the large lock in the Klagenfurt IMuseum (Fig. 204!, or ofdesigns mainly developed from the… … Fig. 203.—Tabernacle Grille from Ottoberg, Tyrol; Fifteenth Centuiy. (S. K. M.) (G.) rial bearings fill the panels between the trellis-bands, withrichly forged rivets or nail-heads on the lozenge intersec- METAL WORK. 237 tions. Sometimes the decoration was gilt or silvered, andthe ground…
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