Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 38
t I give here a series of grotesques, with theview of illustrating my meaning, and I would fain give more, but space will notpermit me to do so. The initial letter S, formed of a bird, is a characteristic Celtic grotesque(Fig. 17). It is quaint and interesting, and is sufficiently unlike a living… … Fig. 19. it is so suggestivc as to call forth the thought of a bird. It should bo noticed,in connection with this Kgure, that the interstices between certain portions of thecreature are tilled by a knot.This is well — the wholething being an ornament,and not a naturalistic repre-sentation. Fig. IS…
Decoration and ornament
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