Figure 10. Dresser, motifs illustrating the ideas of ascension and descension.

Figure 10. Dresser, motifs illustrating the ideas of ascension and descension. Plates XX and XXII from _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 10. Dresser, motifs illustrating the ideas of ascension and descension.
Plates XX and XXII from _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 13. Dresser, “Evening” wallpaper pattern. Figure 5. A small, membranous leaf structure that grows at the juncture of leaf-stalk and stem, and causes the eye to not fixate on that juncture.