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 508
&HQoUild,a,8r^Bl.-r.l ft.l CoDVentioDal Trees. Symbolic Orname^it. 239 … 183. Assyrian sacred tree. (Plate 119) to thecross of Christi-anity and the cres-cent of Islam. (Thecross is combinedwith the fleur-de-lison p. 238.) Thetree and serpent,and the tree alone (Plate 120) remain indeedinto mediaeval times characteristic ornamentalfeatures, very common indeed in…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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