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 237
t thetendrils are made use of only as a convenientmeans of ending off the branches. On Plate 49 is a Coptic rendering froma tomb in Upper Egypt, which is equallyarchaic, but infinitely more ornamental. Ob-serve the reticent use of grapes, their syste-matic arrangement, and the fact that theyalso… … The Greek treatment aboveis, if not more natural, at leastmore florid. The stem indeeddiminishes in thickness towardsits extremity, and is clothedat the same time with smallerleaves ; but the stem itself is amere wave-line, and the leaves, though foundedon a more graceful natural variety thanthe…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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