Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 143
to act from the axis of the vessel outwards, and notfrom the apex to the base, as in the former instance. In either case a certainamount of beauty would appear in the shape produced, for Nature here works forus. (Compare the short, dumpy, yet beautiful bottle, in which we receive curacao,with the… … Fig. no. Fig. 120. SHAPKK OK DECANTERS. 129 Lei us now consider what a decanter should be. In mnny respects, the wantswhich a decanter is intended to meet are similar to those which are met by thebottle, as just enumerated, but here is a great difference—a bottle is only intendedto be filled once,…
Decoration and ornament
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