Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 464
ish uses of wood under Elizabethand James were for open-timber ceilings over chapelsand halls, for wainscoting, and for stairways with theirnewels and balustrades; these three features giving toEnglish manor-houses, college halls and other interiorsan aspect and quality wholly unlike those of any… … Fig. 272.—Elizabethan and Jacobean Details.363 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT and one so useful and so full of decorative possibilitiesthat it is surprising that it was so early and completely-abandoned; it rarely appears after James accession in1603, and never after 1625. Its essential features arean arch…
Decoration and ornament
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