Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 169
beautiful treatment of metal, we give one segment of the Hereford Cathedral Screen (Fig. 171), the work of that most intelligent of metal-workers, Mr. Skidmore of Coventry. This screen was shown in the International Exhibition of 180;i, in London, and was from there removed to its place in the… … Fi-. 172, correct mfxle of working be emjiloyed. Let a bar of iron be taken which is about half an inch in thickness, by 1^ broad. This can be rolled into a volute (the filigree mode of treatment), or its end can be hammered out into stems and leaves, and to it can be attached other leaves by…
Decoration and ornament
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