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Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles
Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles
Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles
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Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles

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Hundreds of beautiful copyright-free line illustrations of intricately carved furniture trimmings. Delicate floral wreaths, scrolls, more.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 29, 2012
ISBN9780486155418
Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles

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    Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles - Syracuse Ornamental Co.

    Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles

    Syracuse Ornamental Co.

    Publisher’s Note

    In 1923 the Syracuse Ornamental Company of Syracuse, New York advertised its fiber-wood carvings, moldings and furniture trimmings in an elegantly illustrated 432-plate catalog. It contained thousands of beautifully rendered pen-and-ink drawings, the bulk of which depicted an extensive and varied array of period furniture ornamentation. The period styles represented ranged chronologically from antiquity to the late nineteenth century, and included Grecian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Louis XIV, William and Mary, Queen Anne, Georgian, Louis XV, Chippendale, Colonial, Louis XVI, Adam, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Duncan Phyfe, Chinese and Modern motifs. The present edition, a new compilation of those plates from the now-rare original catalog that offer the most outstanding selection of border, scroll and cartouche elements, contains examples of each of these styles. Even though the designs were originally created strictly for the

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