Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 442
e, love of minutedetail and high standard of workmanship made the 342 ORNAMENT IN GERMANY German craftsmen past masters in ornament, in thecarving of wood and ivory, in the chasing, hammeringand embossing of metal, in the making ahke of furni-ture and armor, and in all the arts connected withbooks.… … Fig. 251.—Lower Part of ax Etched Bowl, Seventeenth Centtjrt. with the excellences of German workmanship and of theundeniable feeling for decorative effect in even the mostextravagant Baroque and Rococo aberrations of Ger-man design. The same is true of the furniture. TheGermans were particularly…
Decoration and ornament
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