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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 282

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. But gen-erally the classic tra-dition was graduallylost, and a sort of naturalism began to creep in, thoughnot yet the direct copying of Nature. The rinceau hasa round stem but no wrapping-leaves; the stem is flutedor ridged to suggest the bark; the branches spring fromit like grafts, with little… … Fig. 266. Car\t:d Rixceau: Upper, fromMantes; Lower, FRO^r Vaisox. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT

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