Suggestions in design : being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts (1880)
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Colling, James Kellaway · London : Blackie and Son · leaf 35
by ex- two halves are always alike. Radiation we pansion or contraction, as in the case of the have seen in the snow crystals, but it is Greek vase, which may on the one hand be found also in a vast number of flowers, as in expanded to the soup tureen, or contracted the conventional form, Fig. 18.… … doscope teaches us the value of radiation the other forms are beautiful in their degree, combined with symmetrical arrangement of because they are more appropriate to the colour. purpose for which they are intended than Repetition alone is pleasing to the eye, the central vase would have been. Thus…
Decoration and ornament
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