Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 64
theirfoliage, that they invite the smith to hammer hismetal like that! Some are as broad and large instyle as if they were already carved in stone ; andothers, again, grow in such symmetrical and simplelines, that they all but say to the decorator, in somany words, Come, copy us ! The Nahire of… … Japanese rendering of almond blossom, &c. of confining ourselves within the narrow range ofpredetermined convention. The limit of naturaltreatment in design is not marked by a hard lineseparating ornament from all that is pictorial inart: there is no fixed boundary anywhere, only, as E 2 52…
Decoration and ornament
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