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 12
393 592 Empire Ornament in France 377—385 592 Examples of the work of Percier and Fontaine . . . 377—383 592 Various designs 384, 385 597 Later Empire 386 605 Empire Ornament in Italy . 387—389 606 Examples of the work of Guiseppe Borsato .... 388 606 Empire Ornament in Germany 390—393 611… … ighlly understood, the conformation of an ornament shouldbe in keeping with the form and structure of the objectwhich it adorns, should be in complete subordination toit, and should never stifle or conceal it. As varied andas many-sided as it may be, still, the Art of ornamen-tation is never an…
Decoration and ornament
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