Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 297
e developed being a 278 HISTORIC ORAAMENT. more or less realistic or baroque form of the Renaissance(Figs. 245, 246). Gibbons carried out some of his carvingsto an astonishing degree of realism : bouquets of flowers,festoons of fruit and flowers, birds, figures, and draperywere executed by him in… … Pig. 245. —Carved Bracket ; English ; Eighteenth Century. (P.) without any hesitation on the part of the carver. Though wemay condemn the florid looseness of the style of Gibbons,we must admire the dexterity of workmanship and generaltechnical excellence imparted to everything he touched.Some of…
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