New York, Industrial Publication Company · leaf 835
ms, like that shown at Fig.5, belongs to this period. still popular—as the fret, wave-scroll, spiral, and zigzag; but the most sym- bolic features of this style are the winged globe, the lotus and papyrus, and the asp. Many of the forms, and indeed the very details of the Greek style, are still… … Fig. 5. espinos, or egg and tongue, as Fig. 3, the We now come to the middle age styles, astragal, and the scrolls. in which we find symbols play an import- In the egg and tongue we get a bold ant part. Byzantine decorations are in contrast of light and shade, and we have nearly every case composed…
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