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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 484

An illustration from Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms, 1902, leaf 484 — y imaginehow it occurredto the coach-builder to carvefeathers some-what less flimsy,which, moreoverhe could gild!The very notablething is that this feathery scroll-work is notso unlike all other Rococo scrollery. A not unusual form of ornament, or sub-stitute for it, is the grouping together… … 173-4. Coptic feather border anddiaper. 228 Nature in Ornament.

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