Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 97
MOULDING, .\ND DOG-TOOTHMOULDING. simply by cutting a cube of stoneinto a pyramid, depressing thesides, and cuttino^ them into creo-metric leaves, leaving the sharpangles of the pyramid from thebase to the apex standing outin bold^ relief. In ground-planj^o^^.^^^^o^^, formedthis is simply composed… … FILLING OF SPACESin the flat which appears to have been very widelyused, and reappears in the early art of nearly allraces so far as I am aware. We find it, forinstance, in Assyrian carving and in early Greekdecoration, in China and Japan, and in Europeanmediaeval work of all kinds. Its charm…
Drawing · Decoration and ornament
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