. On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes : with remarks on laying out dressed geometrical gardens, examples of good and bad taste, illustrated by woodcuts and coloured plates in contrast . an animal. (Woodcut 39.) A vase should be designed as avase, not copied from a natural object; and though some ofthe lotus-cups of the Egyptians may be tolerated as prettyconceits, they deserve no place among works of refined [In the introduction of figures upon vases a not un-common fault is to place them in such a manner that part isconcealed by the upp
. On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes : with remarks on laying out dressed geometrical gardens, examples of good and bad taste, illustrated by woodcuts and coloured plates in contrast . an animal. (Woodcut 39.) A vase should be designed as avase, not copied from a natural object; and though some ofthe lotus-cups of the Egyptians may be tolerated as prettyconceits, they deserve no place among works of refined [In the introduction of figures upon vases a not un-common fault is to place them in such a manner that part isconcealed by the upper or lower curve of the surface; which fcfe, - § 48, 49. FIGURES OlSf VASES. 261 has a disagreeable effect. The fault is in making the figures toolarge, or in not confining them to the most level part. Thus,the eye, taking in only a portion, sees them without heads, orin a distorted position (woodcut 40, fig. 1), when, by extend-ing the border lower down the upper part, and diminishing the (40.)
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