Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 153
h the true principles havebeen followed, is but a feeble adaptation of these ideas. The svastika appears, itis true, as the regularly recurrent feature; but the effect is that it is producedby a fortuitous assemblage of crooks, invisible hands guiding them to catch 124 STUDIES /;V THE DECORATIYE… … Fig .).•; I have copied this No. 11 design in fig. 53, and developed it, as in the othercases, to shew how far below them it stands in the scale of excellence. What iswrong with it is fairly clear. The pakwa element is badly chosen, its extensionsare unintelligent; it is ungraceful in its…
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