Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 145
oblongvoluted bracket cap was apparently combined with whatseems to have been originally an independent form ofcapital—a crown of one or two rows or rings of leaveslike oves, clearly derived from nature and not from theegg-and-dart motive, toward which, however, it con- 1 Cf. W. H. Goodyear,… … Fig, 148. Cap from AEct. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT verged to form the carved echinus of the Ionic capital.One form of this fohated capital, shown in Fig. 148,is probably a prototype of the high bell or basket of the later-developed Corin-thian capital. The fully developed cap-itals of the Erechtheion…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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