The scrollwork and contorted forms of the rococo period entirely disappear, to be revived only in imitative work of a later time, when they had lost all vitality and meaning, and were no longer in keeping with the spirit of the age.
The gilt scrollwork under the lip shows the rococo at its best.
Generally composed of a framework of shields or medallions, with a design of scrollwork flowing through it.
He came slowly to his feet and steadied himself with one hand on the scrollwork of the bed.
The fact that its massive gold and its scrollwork of inlaid platinum were worth a fortune meant nothing to him then.
Footnote 32: A new door, withscrollwork in iron, has been put in at the cost of the Bedfordshire Archæological Society.
The long spandrils of the groining are painted with conventional scrollwork of leaves and flowers in a style contemporaneous with the architecture.
In place of Gothic leafage we have scrollwork of the marked arabesque or grotesque character derived from Italy.
The scrollworkis as effective as the medallions are insignificant.
In that on page 143 they not only interlace one with the other, but the painted ornament, which now takes the form of more elaborate scrollwork than heretofore, is intertwined with them.
Denis in which there is foliated scrollwork on a background of geometric diaper, although this last is so much "restored" that, for all one can tell, Viollet le Duc may be entirely responsible for it.
The scrollwork on page 143 may be profitably compared with the very unusual white window at S.
The interlacing of bands of plain white upon a ground of cross-hatching, itself enriched withscrollwork clear upon it, is characteristically French.
Yet, though precious stones are much in evidence, in almost every case their settings are coloured, while the design of each jewel is completed with charming scrollwork enriched with polychrome enamels.
The dial is decorated with silver scrollwork and spandrels within and around a raised chapter ring.
The gilt brass dial is decorated with silver-foliated scrollwork in relief at the corners, inside the chapter ring, and within the broken arch.
All the ugly scrollwork can be removed from the porch and windows, and any little pinnacles, or perhaps a cupola from the roof.
Nondescript houses, constructed to please the passing fancy, have been the rule; mixed styles, inartistic lines, and scrollwork have disfigured them.
The village home; its limitations and possibilities; the advantage of simple lines rather than cheap and ugly scrollwork and ornate verandas.
Miriam had time to see little gilded figures standing out in niches in rows all along the facade and rows of scrollwork dimly painted, as she stood still a moment with beating heart behind the group.
The beauty of illuminations is always best secured when the scrollwork runs gracefully smooth, not broken or angular, which gives it an awkward and unartistic appearance.
The stems of the scrollwork may be, with good effect, painted in gold, and shaded up in burnt sienna, to imitate the bark of trees.
In place of carved scrollwork he used marquetry, and on the cabinets and larger pieces panels were painted by Cipriani and Angelica Kauffman.
Japanese lacquer, each panel bordered by elaborate scrollwork of chased ormolu, signed with "B.
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