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 296
been copied almost literallyfrom an Oriental original.The eye or jewel of lightcolour in the centre of theleaf, in place of veining, isessentially Persian. In Plate65, from the same source,the rose-buds are at oncemore elegant and more typi-cal. The exaggerated sepalsin particular are… … 132 Nature in Ornament, ing the square web of the linen on which it isworked. The Rhodian example below wouldhardly be taken for a rose, but for the un-mistakable bud once more : the open floweris more like a marigold. The broken stem is a convenient, and in Rho-dian pottery not an un-common, means…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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