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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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r forms, imitating human figures, animalshapes, human feet, &c. In some cases these may be considered ashajipy thoughts; in others they are simply an aberration of style(figs. 12 and 13). The early days of Chiistendom show reminiscences of the An-tique, e. g. the Lamp in fig. 13, which also bears the monogramof Christ. In later periods: the decoration degenerates, although the fun-damental form has been retained till the present time, in the East,for household lamps; the design of the modern lamp from Jerusalem(fig. 14) is of the simplest possible description. In the West: the oldform is gradually dying-out, since the introduction of the glass cylinder,which enables the illuminating gases to be more thoroughly consumed. Plate 213. The Antique Lamp.1—2. Egyptian, clay. 3. Antique, painted clay, (Menard et Sauvageot). 4. Antique, red clay, United collections, Carlsruhe. 5. Antique, red clay, with two spouts and vertical ring handle,United collections, Carlsruhe. METAL OBJECTS. 365
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The Antique Lamp. Plate 213. ytilj The Antique Lamp. — The Candlestick. 6. Antique, with cover and ring handle, red clay, Unitedcollections, Carlsruhe. 7. Antique, bronze, with high stand, the missing coyer wasevidently a human mask, Louvre, Paris. 8—9. Antique, bronze, on small tripods (candelabrum humile). 10. Antique, bronze, with three spouts, the figure serves as ahandle for the cover, a wick-trimmer is attached to it by achain, found in Herculaneum. 11. Antique, bronze, with two spouts, found in Herculaneum,Museum, Naples, ^/e of original size. 12. Antique, bronze, for suspension, (Formenschatz). 13. Eai-ly Christian, bronze, with the monogram of Christ, forsuspension, from the catacombs, Rome. 14. Modern, Oriental, clay, from Jerusalem, United collections,Carlsruhe. The Candlestick. (Plates 214—215.) The Candlestick is the candle-bearer of the Middle Ages, theRenascence, and Modern times. It is distinguished from the Cande-labrum, if a distinction can be made at all where

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