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 328
the Chinese discarded in their pagodas the timber con-struction which they introduced into Japan and built them in brick, covering themsometimes with porcelain and glazed terracotta plaques of the greatest beauty,and it is in this branch of art and in their ceramics that they excel, and inthe… … 318 CHINESE ORNAMENT. Plate 189. Fig. 1. Pillar crest of the Pagoda of Ho-nan. The Chinese column has no capital, thebeams and brackets being tenoned in at the sides (Chambers, Designs of ChineseBuildings).„ 2. From the colonnade In the court-yard of the Pagoda of Cochin-China(Chambers). 3. Corbel…
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