Studies in the decorative art of Japan . Fig 49 The next development was inevitable. These S figures were evidentlymade to be interlocked ; and so, pruning them of some of their involutions, theywere interlocked and produced the borders given in figs. 50 and 50a. Fig. 50 is given by Owen Jones among the Greek • keys (No. 7 pi. XY) ;lint it does not fulfil his own definition, that a key is a continuous meander; Fig. 50 JSI3ME Fie. 50«. STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN 117 for the units of design are S figures, and the space does not meander, butmerges in the white hands above and below th
Studies in the decorative art of Japan . Fig 49 The next development was inevitable. These S figures were evidentlymade to be interlocked ; and so, pruning them of some of their involutions, theywere interlocked and produced the borders given in figs. 50 and 50a. Fig. 50 is given by Owen Jones among the Greek • keys (No. 7 pi. XY) ;lint it does not fulfil his own definition, that a key is a continuous meander; Fig. 50 JSI3ME Fie. 50«. STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN 117 for the units of design are S figures, and the space does not meander, butmerges in the white hands above and below the design. Fig. 50a which I found on the walls of the Arena at Aries, is of course thesame design ; but the 8 figure is in white and formed by the spaces, and thesecond return is 3 units instead of 2. I have given the two drawings of thesame design in order to shew the different effects produced according as theprincipal feature of the design is treated in black or white, as design or also emphasises the point just taken, that this fillet does not produce a genuinemeandering line. These borders have a superficial resemblance to the key -borders ; butthis arises from the affinity between the svaslika and the palcwa. Their originand development shew that they belong to a different order of design, and there-fore cannot be called imperfect keys. One further point in connexion with the svaslika must be noticed. Itsown comp
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