Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 181
ll historic ornament-forms except the lotus. Around stem, springing from a nest of acanthus-leaves(Figs. 166, 179, 182), branches into scrolls alternatelywinding upon one and the other side, each terminating,not in a point as in the Greek type, but in an elaborateflower or bunch of leaves (Figure… … Fig. 179. Rixceau, Forvm of Trajan. left bare are often filled with subordinate scrolls andtendrils, and in rare instances animal life is introducedin the form of birds, mice and insects (Plate IX).
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