Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 47
-constructional. When we have a marble withany decidedly marked pattern in it, we cansaw it into thin slices, and by reversingthese and placing them in juxtaposition,as shown in Fig. 18, we can obtain verybeautiful effects in a perfectly legitimatemanner. A panel of this kind tells its ownFig. 18.… … STONES OF VENICE. 39 walls with marble we are not restricted to vertical andhorizontal jointing, and that the more we use our freedomin departing from this, the more purely decorative andnon-constructional does our work become. An exampleof this kind of work is shown in Fig. 19, being the…
Marble · Decoration and ornament · Marble industry and trade
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