Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 331
energy of Nature. The crocket, de-scended no doubt from the Corinthian corner-volute,was carved like a thick flattened shoot bearing a globularbunch of uncurling leaves (Fig. 309). Like the Cor- 1 Article Sculpture in Dictionn;iire raisonne (vol. viii). 303 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT inthian volute, it… … Fig. 313. Capital, St. Martix-des-Ciiamps,Pakis. or other memher which hore it (Fig. 314). As thecarvers skill increased, the stiffness of the early conven-tionalism disappeared, and a beautiful type of foliagewas evolved, still conventional and thoroughly archi-tectural, but with grace and…
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