. 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 . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. vases appear to borrow from a companion the cup they standupon {fig. 1); while others take a neck from one, a body s 258 ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Part II. from another, and a foot from a third, all of different charac-ters ; perhaps on the plea of variety {fig. 2). Meretricious ornament, combined with richness of material,is one of the greates
. 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 . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. vases appear to borrow from a companion the cup they standupon {fig. 1); while others take a neck from one, a body s 258 ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Part II. from another, and a foot from a third, all of different charac-ters ; perhaps on the plea of variety {fig. 2). Meretricious ornament, combined with richness of material,is one of the greatest enemies to good taste, because it may-captivate by its pretensions, and even appear to assert aright to admiration, from the doubtful merit of being in thesalons of the great. Many, therefore, of the worst forms in (32.).
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