as yet,however, scarcely worth forging (though I havenoticed a few specimens); let the student beginwith them and learn the sequence of the forms andstyles; later he can venture on the acquisition ofhistoric specimens, armed with a little coherentknowledge with which to checkmate fraud. Percy Bate.… … somewhat as a surprise to find, in the Germansections of goldsmiths work, pottery, furniture,etc., evidence of real progress in industrial art onthe part of those who hitherto had certainly notbeen distinguished for good taste and decorativeharmony.
Art · Decoration and ornament
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