Figure 6. Ornamental motifs that evoke the “mental conception” of a leaf-bud.

Figure 6. Ornamental motifs that evoke the “mental conception” of a leaf-bud. Plate II from Dresser, _The Art of Decorative Design_ (1862). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 6. Ornamental motifs that evoke the “mental conception” of a leaf-bud.
Plate II from Dresser, _The Art of Decorative Design_ (1862). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 1. Christopher Dresser, nature’s diaper patterns, from “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture” (1857-1858). Figure 7. Dresser, illustrations of a violet, a flower that we encounter as a “vertical ornament” with bi-lateral symmetry (left) and a flower we encounter as a “horizontal ornament” with radial symmetry (right).