The practical book of early American arts and crafts . pitals to the pillarsof the portico (a later addition), and carved windowtrims with an interesting inscription beneath one ofthe windows: It is Qod aloneAlmyty LordThe Holy OneBy me adord John Bartram 1770 Quaint little scrolls fill in the otherwise vacant spaces,as they also do on the earlier date-stone in the gable. Other specimens of carving in this native mica stoneare to be found in the milestones set out in 1703 alongthe Lancaster Pike bearing Penns arms in bold reliefon a sunk ground, and on date-stones and wall devices,such as the
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . pitals to the pillarsof the portico (a later addition), and carved windowtrims with an interesting inscription beneath one ofthe windows: It is Qod aloneAlmyty LordThe Holy OneBy me adord John Bartram 1770 Quaint little scrolls fill in the otherwise vacant spaces,as they also do on the earlier date-stone in the gable. Other specimens of carving in this native mica stoneare to be found in the milestones set out in 1703 alongthe Lancaster Pike bearing Penns arms in bold reliefon a sunk ground, and on date-stones and wall devices,such as the tulip and heart or other mystic emblems,among the Pennsylvania Germans. Late in the Colonial period and in the early post-Colonial period, architectural carving in marble camemore and more into fashion, and was wrought in themanner in which we of to-day are accustomed to seeingit treated. It was at this time, too, that some of theexquisite marble mantels of Adam pattern were , also, were wrought in Empire designs at aslightly later CARVED MULBERRY; OVER-DOOR DEVICE FROM MUL-BERRY^ CASTLE, SOUTHCAROLIJJA, 1715Courtesy of Charles Brendon,Esq., New York City
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