On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . 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. Pakt 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 maycaptivate by its pretensions, and even appear to assert aright to admiration, from the doubtful merit of bein
On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . 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. Pakt 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 maycaptivate 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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