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Principles of decorative design (1870)

Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 91

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loehc ; whilst the sides might have either a running pattern, or a pattern withan upward tendency, as the Greek honejsueklej and the ceiling intervening so IlilXClPl.ES OK BKSIOK. between the joists might have a running pattern, or better, a star, or diaper pattern,or it might have l)ands running… … Fig. 55. almost any setting out of the surface may be employed, as Fig. 5-3 ; or a largecentre ornament, as Pigs. oi and 55 ; or a rosette distributed over the entire surface, asFig. 56. In any case it is not necessary or even desirable that the ornament be inrelief upon the ceiling. Flatly treated…

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