Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)
Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 102
Ancient Chimaera in white Marble, Rome (Tatham). POMPEIAN ORNAMENT. … n the neighbourhood of Mount Vesuvius on theBay of Naples stood the cities of Pompeii,Herculaneum and Stabia. These three citieswere destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius inthe year 79 A. D., and were so thoroughly andcompletely buried that for centuries no trace ofwhere they stood could be found.…
Decoration and ornament
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