. 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. Fig. 3. a collection of these, as of the most whimsical pieces of oldVenetian glass, or of curious china, is innocent and unobjec-tionable ; but when they claim admiration as objects of realbeauty and good design, their pretensions are not to be Hl-i 256 ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Part II. tolerated; and they have the injurious effect of accusto
. 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. Fig. 3. a collection of these, as of the most whimsical pieces of oldVenetian glass, or of curious china, is innocent and unobjec-tionable ; but when they claim admiration as objects of realbeauty and good design, their pretensions are not to be Hl-i 256 ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. Part II. tolerated; and they have the injurious effect of accustomingthe eye to objectionable forms, and tend- to the corruptionof taste. Heavy rotundity in the upper, and ill-suited narrowness inthe lower, part of a vase, are glaring but common faults (27,fig. 2); [but when meretricious ornament is added, and that inbright metal, as gold or or-molu, the deformity is still moreglaring; and a vase made of a shell bound in metal, withrampant dragons for handles, is a still worse instance of in- (27.).
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