2-750-508 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Knights' Hall in the Gothic Style, Leipzig, Germany, (1928). '1797...Rittersaal im gotischen Geschmack ("Knights' Hall in the Gothic Style")...Helmets with plumes (these may be coloured and thus produce a pleasant play of colours), armour with coloured sashes, lances, swords, battle-axes placed one over the other, trumpets and heraldic insignia should alternate on the panels as shown in our illustration. The superporte shows a knight and his lady with the arms on the right and left of two ancient aristocratic families united by their marriage. The beams of the ceiling, profiled like an old shield, can be seen in their cross-sections (black) in the band ornament below the ceiling'. Plate CXI, fig 208, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]