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 477
ment—for symbolic reasons, originally, nodoubt, but also because it is so obviouslyornamental. It falls, indeed, very nearly intothe lines of the anthemion, of which it hasbeen contended the Renaissance shell orna-ment is only a variation. But, as in the daysof the Renaissance, and of the Roman… … 171. Heraldic mantling—wood carving. it was thence the sculptor and the painterderived their inspiration. The shell is used in connection with a flow-ing seaweed pattern on Plate in, on whichare also other varieties of seaweed borders.But it would have been better to have usedsome other form of…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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