id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uiuc.7455260 Jones, Owen, 1809-1874. The grammar of ornament / by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred and twelve plates 1910 .txt text/plain 57973 5661 78 geometrical patterns formed by the interlacing of equal lines in the ornament of every savage tribe, and retained in the more advanced art of every from the feather, another type of ornament (11 and 12, Plate V.) : the same instinct is again at work The whole of the ornaments on this Plate are taken from Mr. Layard's great work, The Monuments of Nineveh. and a species of lotus, Nos. 4 and 5, the ornaments do not appear to be formed on any natural type, forms of interlacing ornament in styles which succeeded the Greek. by paint; in coloured ornament, animals are as freely introduced as in sculpture, vide No. 26, Plate general principles remaining the same in the Persian, the Arabian, and the Turkish styles of ornament, form the terminal ornament of a pattern, of which various examples occur in Plate LXIV., the gaping natural form as works of ornament. ./cache/uiuc.7455260.pdf ./txt/uiuc.7455260.txt