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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 320

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of win-dows under a discharging arch through successive stages in which the separatingpier became a column ora slender chamfered ormolded pier of cut stone,while the spandrel abovewas perforated with a cir-cle; then treated like athick plate of stone withdecoratively cusped orfoiled openings cut… … A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the space between their pointed-arched heads and themain window-arch filled with circles or geometric pat-terns of stone work, the interest of the design being nowtransferred from the shapes of the openings to the shapesof the stone work (bar tracery. Fig. 305 h). Towardsthe…

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