DOI issue:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI article:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [4]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0292
Arts and Crafts
archaeological recrudescence of the dry bones of of the roots and of the foliage is practically one
dead and bygone fashions. If only he can point level square externally, with a cylindrical shaft in-
to some precedent as a pretext for departing from side, a device which implies an extraordinary
the accepted standard of any given style, he seizes amount of undercutting, and gives the effect of
upon it gladly and develops it according to the great depth and richness. The same process is
bent of his fancy, not regarding the additional employed in the case of the oak panel, where the
labour involved. Thus, though the volute of an sails and rigging of the ship are as completely
Ionic capital does not admit of much variation in apart from the background as though the vessel were
classic hands, Mr. Aumonier, taking advantage of a separate model set in a niche. The subject,
a hint furnished by the columns of the base of the Columbus's ship, the Pinta, is taken from a print
magnificent Colleone monument at Venice, has of about the period of the Emperor Charles V.
given a fresh character altogether to the time-worn The imperial arms are blazoned on one sail, and
stock type. He undercuts the volute until it stands the arms of Spain, quarterly Castile and Leon, on
out almost as a detached coil, leaving the outline the other. The border is adapted, it would appear,
of the bell-cap distinctly visible within. It is rather from a French source, to judge from the escallop
as a pastime than anything else that Mr. Aumonier shells and knots, the insignia of the Order of St.
allows himself the indulgence of producing such Michael, founded by King Louis XL The hall
works as those here illustrated. The two carved seat is of English oak, and is a piece of work
columns form part of the structure of a chimney- which was planned with the utmost care in all its
piece and are executed in yellow deal. The plane details, both in respect of constructive requirements
CHEST WITH POKER-WORK DECORATION
264
BV MRS. WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY
archaeological recrudescence of the dry bones of of the roots and of the foliage is practically one
dead and bygone fashions. If only he can point level square externally, with a cylindrical shaft in-
to some precedent as a pretext for departing from side, a device which implies an extraordinary
the accepted standard of any given style, he seizes amount of undercutting, and gives the effect of
upon it gladly and develops it according to the great depth and richness. The same process is
bent of his fancy, not regarding the additional employed in the case of the oak panel, where the
labour involved. Thus, though the volute of an sails and rigging of the ship are as completely
Ionic capital does not admit of much variation in apart from the background as though the vessel were
classic hands, Mr. Aumonier, taking advantage of a separate model set in a niche. The subject,
a hint furnished by the columns of the base of the Columbus's ship, the Pinta, is taken from a print
magnificent Colleone monument at Venice, has of about the period of the Emperor Charles V.
given a fresh character altogether to the time-worn The imperial arms are blazoned on one sail, and
stock type. He undercuts the volute until it stands the arms of Spain, quarterly Castile and Leon, on
out almost as a detached coil, leaving the outline the other. The border is adapted, it would appear,
of the bell-cap distinctly visible within. It is rather from a French source, to judge from the escallop
as a pastime than anything else that Mr. Aumonier shells and knots, the insignia of the Order of St.
allows himself the indulgence of producing such Michael, founded by King Louis XL The hall
works as those here illustrated. The two carved seat is of English oak, and is a piece of work
columns form part of the structure of a chimney- which was planned with the utmost care in all its
piece and are executed in yellow deal. The plane details, both in respect of constructive requirements
CHEST WITH POKER-WORK DECORATION
264
BV MRS. WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY