2-756-639 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Medieval wood mosaic, (1898). 'Figs 1-6: From a reading-desk in the cathedral of Orvieto [Italy]. Figs 7 and 8: From the stalls of Frari Church at Venice. Figs 9-17: From the vestry-door in S. Anastasia at Verona. Figs 18-27: From the stalls in the minster at Ulm [Germany]...we meet most frequently with band and line ornament, in conjunction with a kind of mosaic work, consisting of small pieces of wood being arranged as stars, etc'. Inlaid wood in geometrical patterns. Plate 39 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]