Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 286
of wood, both ona gigantic and on aminute scale. Wholefronts of houses wereelaborately carved indesigns consisting offigure work, animals, or-nament, and grotesquesof a quaint and humorousdescription, while ex-ceedingly minute works of figure subjects and animalswere carved in box and other woods… … Fig. 239.—Carved Wood Panel; French ;Sixteenth Centnry. (P.) 268 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Flemish and English furniture and carving were pretty-much alike in the reigns of Elizabeth—the Tudor period ofEnglish art—and of James I., the Stuart or J acabean. Thepieces of carved furniture, both Flemish and…
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