Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 37
an do much. (Figs. 13 and 14.) * The ellipse and egg-shape here spoken of are not those which are struck by compasses in anyway, for the curves of such figures are merely combined arcs, but such as are struck with string, ora tramel. 24 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. Alternation is a principle of primary… … Fig. 14. Eig. 16. sepals), but between them—(hoy alternate with them. This principle is not onlymanifested in plants, hut also in many ornaments produced in the best periods of art(Fig. L5). If /tinnIs are employed as ornaments they must nut be treated imitatively, but mustbe conventionally…
Decoration and ornament
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