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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 157

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e method is employed tomore characteristic purpose in the diaper upon the groundthan in the griffin, admirably as the charge is treated. We Britons are much too fond of hard precision, regard-less of the fact that even dumb ornament may be expressiveof a workmanlike device. Compare the cut glass on… … ^ M/ •-fS •!

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