Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 43
e interstices between certain portions of the creature are filled by a knot. This is well — the whole thing being an ornament, and not a naturalistic repre- sentation. Fig. 18 is a Siamese grotesque head, and a fine sample it is of the curious form of ornament which it represents. Mark, it is in no… … Fig. 20. upon. Fig. 20 is a fish, with the feeling of the grotesques of the Middle Ages, It is a good type, being truly ornamental, and yet sufficiently suggestive. In order that I convey to the reader a fuller idea of my views respecting the
Decoration and ornament
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