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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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charming play of the colouredwoods, grainings, wood-mosaics, and intarsia-work, set-off by the useof all kinds of mounts. The place of the prismatic and bevelledposts is taken by richly - profiled and twisted columns and terminal-figures; instead of matchboard - work we find mortised frame-work,and panels decorated with figures and ornaments. The revolutionproduced a happy and lasting effect. We do well when we buildfurther on this tradition, and construct our modem Cabinets on thegood models of this epoch. Unhappily the few examples of ourPlates can only give a faint idea of this group. Plate 253. The Cabinet. 1. Late Gothic, end of the 15 th century, oak, with tinned iron mounts,Germanisches IMuseum, Nui-emberg, (Kunsthandwerk). 2. Renascence, variegated woods. South German 16 th century(Formenschatz). 3. Renascence, side-view, German, (Formenschatz). 4. Modem, by Prof. Schick, Carlsruhe. 5. Modem, black wood with copper intarsia, by A. Balcke. 6. Modem, in two woods. 448 FURNITURE.
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Plate 254. The Sideboard. The Sideboard, — The Hanging-Cabinet. 449 The Sideboard. (Plate 254.) Sideboards are a separate di\ision. They are intended for thereception of articles used in the service of the table. Vases andornaments may also be placed upon them; and in many cases theyare themselves decorative objects. In the Middle Ages they are com-paratively plain, and of invariable form; the ground-plan being anoblong or semi-octagon; they stand on legs, and have of an openspace beneath, over which are the cupboards, with a flat top, (figs. 1and 8). During the Renascence, this traditional plan gave way toricher and more complicated constructions; the lower recess was fre-quently retained; instead of it or along with it, further recesseswere added at the middle height or still higher; the top is con-structed as an independent member, often of smaller dimensions andrecessed; and terraces of shelves with balaustered galleries for glassesand plates, form the conclusion of the whole. H

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