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 509
184. Assyrian sacred tree. gryphons. 240 Nature in Ornament, … The winged globes,the sphinxes, the sacredbeetles and the like(p. 237), together withthe Nile plants, deter-mine the very characterof Egyptian design. Emblems of sove-reignty again, and he-raldic badges of all kinds—the rose, the lily, andthe fleur-de-lis, for ex-ample (Plates 42, 43, 63,64, 121,…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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