The Styles of Ornament by Alexander Speltz 1959

There is no larger collection of ornament in print anywhere today. 647 pages containing 3765 different illustrations! Indispensable for artists, designers, illustrators, architects, craftsmen, students, and anyone else searching for distinctive, authentic design. The individual illustrations are royalty-free--buy the book and thousands of unusual drawings are yours for the using. 

Images from vanished civilizations of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Phoenicia, Judah, India, Greece, Rome, Pompeii, the Celts, the Etruscans; from China, Japan, Arabia, India, Cambodia, Russia, Scandinavia, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, England, Austria, Spain, and other countries. Prehistoric and primitive; antiquity; the Middle Ages, including early-Christian ornaments of the Lombards, Visigoths, Franks, and Byzantines, Romanesque ornament, Mohammedan ornament, and Gothic ornament; Renaissance ornament in Florence, Venice, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland; Rococo ornament throughout Europe; Colonial style in the United States: nineteenth-century classical revival, with designs of Sheraton and Hepplewhite; Empire; and Biedermeier and Neoclassical ornament in Germany. 

You'll find Gargoyles; Buddhas; dragons; capitals, bases, and shafts of columns; necklaces, rings, and other jewelry; urns, vases; friezes; buildings of brick, wood, stone; tables, chairs, mirrors, chests, and hardware; tapestries and cloths; statues; suits of armor, helmets, lances; mitres; fantastic animals, centaurs, cupids; religious objects; keyholes; sedan chair; bridges; coats of arms; and hundreds of others. This wide spectrum of styles will almost literally be a bottomless treasury of source material that you will use again and again, each time finding something different. 

Title: The Styles of Ornament 
Author: Alexander Speltz 
Publisher: Dover 
Publication Date: 1959 
Binding: Trade paperback 
Illustrations: 3,765 illustrations, 400 full page plates 
Language: English 
Pages: 647 
Measures approximately: 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches (21 x 14 x 4 cm.) 
Condition of the book: Please see the images  
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