The practical book of early American arts and crafts . ly limited scope ofany modern application that can be made of these Colo-nial precedents and patterns, there are, nevertheless,not a few points in which they are pregnant with sug-gestions that we shall do well to study and ponder, bothin the matter of technique of execution and in the usesto which. carved embellishment was put. They alsoshow, in most cases, notwithstanding certain minorcrudities that occasionally appear, the strong innatesense of refined proportion so eminently characteristicof much of the work done in the seventeenth and
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . ly limited scope ofany modern application that can be made of these Colo-nial precedents and patterns, there are, nevertheless,not a few points in which they are pregnant with sug-gestions that we shall do well to study and ponder, bothin the matter of technique of execution and in the usesto which. carved embellishment was put. They alsoshow, in most cases, notwithstanding certain minorcrudities that occasionally appear, the strong innatesense of refined proportion so eminently characteristicof much of the work done in the seventeenth and eight-enth centuries, particularly the latter. Furthermore,they materially increase our esteem for the averageability of the Colonial artisan, and no account of theearly arts and crafts would be complete if it did notinclude some notice of the labours of both wood andstone carvers. WOOD CARVING Peocesses. Before specifically directing attention tothe several fields in which carved ornamentation wascustomarily employed, it is desirable to explain the. CARVED, PAINTED AND GILT CHERUBS AND BOOK, c. 1740, ORGAN GALLERY, GLORIA DEI, PHILADELPHIA CourtPsy of Rector and Vestry of Gloria Dei, Philadelphia
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