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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ening, engraving, gilding, etc. Plate 230. The Halberd, &c. 1. Partizan, richly - etched, German, 16th century, HistoricalMuseum, Dresden, (Kunsthandwerk). 2. Halberd, richly-etched, German, 1613, Artillery Museum,Paris, (Lart pour tous). 3. Fauchard, richly-etched, German, 1580, Artillery Museum,Paris, (Lart pour tous). 4. Partizan, richly-etched, German, 17th century. ArtilleryMuseum, Paris, (Lart pour tous). 5. Partizan, richly-etched, German, 1712, Royal Armoury,Berlin, (Kunsthandwerk). 6 and 8. Halberds. 7. Combination of War-scythe and War-fork. 9. Battle-axe, Hindu, United collections, Carlsruhe. 10. Mace, so-called quadrelle, (Viollet-le-Duc). 11. Pike. (The shafts have been omitted, or only partially indicated). c. Table Utensils. The Spoon. (Plate 231.) The Spoon is, strictly speaking, a dipper; and has already beenalluded-to in the discussion of the group of Vessels (comp. Plate 193).It is here treated in the group of Utensils. As a table utensil the METAL 0BJ:^CTS. 397
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The Halberd, &c. Plate 230. 398 The Spoon. Spoon has been in use from the earliest times; its fundamentalform has undergone very little alteration; although its style and sizehave varied in different periods. The form of the Bowl is spherical, elliptic, or oval (in the lastcase the handle is usually attached to the broad end, more rarely tothe narrow one). The Handle has a cylindrical, prismatic or conicaltapering form, or is spatulate. Spatulate handles broaden out at thefree end; and are decorated with cartouches or pierced work(figs. 26, 28—30). Prismatic, cylindrical, and conical, handles usually^rminate in knobs, busts, or little whole-length figures (figs. 13—17,and 19—23). The handles of small Antique spoons for eating shellfish, &c.,often taper to a point to serve as openers. Double-spoons, as shownin fig. 24, are rare. Folding Pocket-spoons, as in figs. 18, 19, 21and 22, are not infrequent in the Middle Ages, and the Keuascence.Bowl and handle either lie in the

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