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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.

Author: William Henry Holmes

Release Date: November 28, 2006 [EBook #19953]

Language: English

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

OF

FORM AND ORNAMENT IN CERAMIC ART.

BY

WILLIAM H. HOLMES.

CONTENTS.

Page.

Introductory 443
Origin of form 445
By adventition 445
By imitation 445
By invention 450
Modification of form 450
By adventition 450
By intention 452
Origin of ornament 453
From natural objects 454
From artificial objects 455
Functional features 455
Constructional features 456
From accidents attending construction 457
From ideographic and pictorial subjects 457
Modification of ornament 457
Through material 458
Through form 458
Through methods of realization 459

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. 464.--Form derived from a gourd 446
465.--Form derived from a conch, shell