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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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end of the key, isdivided by notches into wards. The decoration is applied to thebow. The Pompeian key, shown in fig. 1, is an exception, the bowbeing smooth and the bit and stem prettily ornamented. Keys aremade of iron and bronze, the stem being frequently of iron, and thebow of some other metal; the bow, and indeed the whole key, is oftengilt. The palmy days of Keys were the Middle Ages and the Re-nascence; compared with these, our Modern keys are on the wholesmaller, simpler, and, if less beautiful, are certainly more practical.Finally we may mention those colossal examples which were formerlymade to serve as Signs; and are even now met-with. E*LATE 237. The Key. 1. Antique, Pompeii, (Bliimner: Das Kunstgewerbe im Alterthum). 2. Roman, bronze, found on the Hohenkrahen, United collections,Carlsruhe. 3. Romanesque, bronze, United collections, Carlsruhe.4—5. Renascence, (Kunst und Gewerbe). 6—8. Renascence, Museo Medio Evo e Rinascimento, Rome, (Ge-werbehalle). METAL OBJECTS. 411
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The Kev. Plate 237. 412 The Hand-Mirror. — The Fan. 9. Renascence, (Gruichard). 10. Renascence, South Kensington Museum, London. 11—12. Renascence, German.13—14. Bows, 18 th century, (Wessely).15—19. Modern, by the architect Otto Girard, Berlin, (Gewerbehalle). The Hand-Mirror. (Plate 238.) The first place in the series of ladies toilet requisites belongsto the Hand-mirror, Its history falls into two periods. In Antiquityand in the earlier years of the Middle Ages: mirrors were made ofpolished metal, either bronze or silver. About the 13 th century, glassbegins to be used, the reflecting surface being backed with metal foil.The Antique, and particulary the Etruscan mirrors, of which a largenumber have been preserved to us, show engraved ornaments andfigures from mythology and daily life, mostly of primitive, butsometimes of excellent, workmanship. Glass mirrors are, generally,flat. The fundamental shape of the Antique mirror is circular orspatulate (figs. 1—6); and that of t

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