Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 176
78 Nature in Ornament. of smiths' work. Given the idea of foliated ironwork, and the facilities of cutting, hammer- ing, and twisting, it was only natural it should take something like the late Gothic forms on Plate 36. Some such excuse for elaboration makes a confessedly dangerous practice more… … by nature, and 61. Foliated forms geometrically diapered. the ornamental character is only an exaggeration of natural characteristics. The seeds of the pomegranate already referred to are a case in point. In the em- broidered fruit on Plate 73 they are repre- sented by a diaper of chequers. In the
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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