Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 132
rlier, and is not an explana-tion of its origin. In the Assyrian lotus-and-palmetteborders (see Plate IV), the units are connected byhnked voluted bands; the Greeks substituted for thesethe double-curved or S-scroll (Figure 123), introducingthereby a wholly new element of grace and rhythmicmovement… … GREEK ORNAMENT, I ous ways, elaborated the connecting scrolls, and refinedtheir forms and combinations in an extraordinary varietyof ways, creating out of the somewhat monotonous andlifeless Oriental pal-mette an entirely newand exquisitely beauti-ful ornament (Figs.133, 134). Fig. 134represents…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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