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 353
of thecharacteristic form popularly known as thehoneysuckle ornament of the Greeks,* thereis no mistaking the Egyptian lotus K\\i \il^S\iMiK^ lUfMand papyrus or- !ffM\{^ iir^r\\\ [fr^^ the Assyrian palm !/jmv\|f//^\\H/j^f^\lornament, p. 151. y^\f/^K\l in^^\\ ifK flower forms, also gTi 1 Uf^Kxi… … I20. Lily-like Greek details. and in the Indian naya, or many-headed snake,the resemblance is so striking as to suggestthat serpent-worship may possibly have beenafter all the starting-point of the idea. The Etruscan anthemion on p. 158 is verylike the Indian naya (Plate 119) ; the Greekdetails on…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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