Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 452
resden Museum. ORNAMENT IN GERMANY light wood on a darker wood (or vice-versa) were oftenapplied to the flat members of the frame of the furni-ture, as earlier they had been used on boxes and smallobjects (Fig. 262). Typographic Ornament. A German invented printing with movable type inthe middle of… … Fig. 263.—German Text Initials, Sixteenth Century. printed books. The persistence of the medieval Ger-man Text characters, especially in the case of thecapital letters, gave opportunity for highly decorativeflourishes impossible with the more sober classic formsof the Roman characters (Fig. 263).…
Decoration and ornament
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