Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art
by William Henry Holmes
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- Author
- Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
- Title
- Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466.
- Credits
- Produced by Carlos Traverso, Verity White, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Indian art -- North America
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19953
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19953
- Release Date
- November 28, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
- 2.WILLIAM H. HOLMES.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENT IN CERAMIC ART.
- 6.By William H. Holmes.
- 7.INTRODUCTORY.
- 8.ORIGIN OF FORM — FORMS SUGGESTED BY ADVENTITION. — FORMS DERIVED BY IMITATION. — INVENTION OF FORM.
- 9.MODIFICATION OF FORM. — MODIFICATION BY ADVENTITION. — MODIFICATION BY INTENTION.
- 10.ORIGIN OF ORNAMENT. — SUGGESTIONS OF NATURAL FEATURES OF OBJECTS. — SUGGESTIONS BY FEATURES OF ARTIFICIAL OBJECTS. — SUGGESTIONS OF ACCIDENTS. — IDEOGRAPHIC AND PICTORIAL SUBJECTS.
- 11.MODIFICATION OF ORNAMENT.
- 12.INDEX.
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