Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Portion of Desmarestia ligulata. cheese-plates, we have soup-tureens and vegetable-dishes,meat-plates and dessert-plates;and why might we not havearticles appropriated to the ser-vice of fish, and decorated withsea-weeds ? I have frequentlyseen, in drying these objects,their forms impressed throughthe thick blotting-paper, andforming very beautiful traceryin low relief on the oppositeside. Such impressions havealways suggested the idea of asimilarly simple, chaste, andelegant ornamentation
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Portion of Desmarestia ligulata. cheese-plates, we have soup-tureens and vegetable-dishes,meat-plates and dessert-plates;and why might we not havearticles appropriated to the ser-vice of fish, and decorated withsea-weeds ? I have frequentlyseen, in drying these objects,their forms impressed throughthe thick blotting-paper, andforming very beautiful traceryin low relief on the oppositeside. Such impressions havealways suggested the idea of asimilarly simple, chaste, andelegant ornamentation of theplainer and commoner impressions left by theChondrus crispus, Dictyota dicho-toma, and other flat and inter-lacing forms, are most admir-able for such a process. Simpleaccidents may often lead to un-expected results ; and Grecianlegends even attribute the dis-covery of modelling in relief tothe tracing upon the wall, by a SEA-WE EDS. 125 potters daughter, of the shadow of her departing lovers face,which her father modelled afterwards in clay. Passing by the genera Arthrocladia, Sftor
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