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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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and metal reliefs. These smallCaskets were chiefly used for jewelry, and as work-boxes, etc., forwhich purposes similar caskets are still manufactured. Plate 256. The Chest. 1. Antique, Pompeii, (Menard et Sauvageot), 2. Mediaeval reliquary, (Viollet-le-Duc). 3. Mediaeval bench-chest, 13th century MS. (Viollet-le-Duc). 4. Gothic, carved chestnut wood with iron mounts and handles, 15thcentury, (Viollet-le-Duc). 5. Mediaeval, Brampton church, England, (Viollet-le-Duc). 6. Renascence, Dutch, (Lart pour tous). 7. Renascence, Italian. 8. Renascence, Flemish, 17th century, (Lart pour tous). d. Miscellaneous. The Desk, &c. (Plate 257.) The Desk is a stand virith a sloping top, on which books andother things may be placed. Passing over Reading-desks, Music-desks,and other desks for secular use, which as a rule are left undecorated;we have the desks used in churches, e. g. the Prie-dieu, the Lectern,<fec., which are to some extent found of rich workmanship as early as 29* 452 FURNITURE.
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Plate i!o6. The Chest. The Desk, &c. — The Clock-Case, &c. 453 the beginning of the Middle Ages. They are made of wood, or metal,or of both combined. We distinguish Itetween single and doubledesks. The Lectern is frequently supported on the back of an Eaglewith outspread wings, a design which is supposed to contain areference to the Evangelist S. John, whose symbol in the eagle.Ecclesiastical desks eiter have a fixed position in the choir or chancel,or they are moveable. These latter were sometimes like a Saw-horseand could be folded-up; in which case the slope was replaced bybands (fig. 6). The upper part of fixed desks frequently revolves,and is furnished with sconces for lights. The Easel is a sloping frame Avith three or four legs. Thefront and rear are often connected by hinges to enable the angle ofthe slope to be altered at will. The front is provided with a small board,which can be adjusted to different heights by pins or other mechanism.It is an invention of modern

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