Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 109
went more directly to nature ; but thoughyou might trace these home, they are asyet very arbitrary renderings. And for mypart I think the earlier and more arbitraryGothic forms by far the more ornamental:the stone budding into crockets or other sculp-turesque foliation, is to me far more… … ig. Spiral Persian scroll. adherence to the natural type has resulted inthe less satisfactory ornament. The artists of the latest Gothic period seemto have realised that themselves. In theGerman tapestry on Plate 19 there is, properlyspeaking, neither leaf nor flower, but onlyornamental detail…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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