Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 150
ll on which this diaper glistened in red lacquer,with the star-like border to finish it. This question of finishing off a design is really a very troublesome one,needing much discrimination in dealing with it, and many fail most lamentably,as a certain long-forgotten artist did many centuries ago… … Fie. 52 What a melancholy story of incapacity and indecision these lines tell ;what a dull brain the sculptor must have had to finish off his design in so crudea fashion. The design itself is bad enough, but his instinct told him that anabrupt ending was to be avoided ; and those grotesque figures…
Decoration and ornament
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