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 317
e.FURNIVAL S HOLtOnK, L .0 . poiDegranates More Parallels, 141 of the fruit is indicated only by a change ofcolour : no seeds are revealed. The sixteenthcentury German treatment (same plate) isequally arbitrary. ^ <>- ^ >n ?. / -k-^-^ •z/-:^ I ;■ ^:^ -l^V^ 104. Oak from the cathedral of… … 105. Assyrian Tree ofLife. stands also, no doubt, forthe pomegranate; but it isquite a traditional rendering,by a man who probablynever saw the fruit. Com-pare this also with the pinepatterns on Plate 84 and onp. 157. The various renderings ofthe oak, Classic on p. 94,Gothic on Plates 29 and…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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