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Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
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
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of the family of the Trochoidae, are placed on feetjand, elegantly mounted in metal, serve as Drinking-vessels. The Scallop shell is used as the top of cylindrical niches, as awaterbasin in the form of a shallow dish, and as a decorative back-ground for vases and busts. It was extensively employed for thesepurposes in the later Renascence. Plate 59. The Shell. 1. Nautilus, from nature. 2. Snail (Turho marmoratus), from a Renascence drinking-vessel. 3. Exterior of the Scallop (Ostrea Jacohaea — Peden Jacohaeus),from nature. 4. Interior of the Scallop, after Jost Amman, (Hii-th, Formenschatz). 5. Scallop design, Louis XVI. style, lower end of a panel. 6. Scallop design, by the sculptor Lehr, of Berlin. 7. ScaUop design, for the decoration of a niche. The Serpent. (Plate 60.) The Serpent is occasionally used for symbolic and decorativepurposes. It is developed ints an antique Bracelet, and to a Handlefor vessels, a pair twine round the Staff of Mercury (the Caduceus, NATURAL FOEMS. 91
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