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 339
s been to over-elaborate the decoration, andin their temples the ornament applied to theircolumns and beams is very much the same inboth countries. In their halls of state and domestic buildings the contrary is thecase, those in China are overloaded with ornament, the great halls being paintedand… … JAPANESE ORNAMENT. 329 marbles of various kinds and elaborate carved woodwork whereas in Japan thegreatest simplicity is observed, in the palaces of the Mikado and Shogun thewoodwork is simply polished, shewing the grain of the wood, with mounts ingilt bronze. The oldest Japanese Art report dates…
Decoration and ornament
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