ABSTRACT
Ornaments of gold and silver came into use too long ago, and have remained and will ever, remain too great a delight to the eye ever to be laid aside. The quality of all ornaments is of three kinds—barbaric, artistic, or merely ostentatious. Phillips, the most perfeet models are sought for the ornaments they furnish. In such ornaments as trimmings, the form of the body they surround should be considered; round forms ought never to be made to look square, or angular forms round. The ornament of an object which is required to be strong, should express strength; if possible, it should give an appearance of additional strength to what it would have had if undecorated. Many exquisite ornaments of early Greek and Renascence art in the British Museum and the Louvre, might be more commonly reproduced.
