Figure 8. Dresser, ornamental patterns with radial symmetry, suitable for floors or ceilings.

Figure 8. Dresser, ornamental patterns with radial symmetry, suitable for floors or ceilings. Fig. 57, Plate XVIII fig. 2, and Plate V fig. 3 from _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 8. Dresser, ornamental patterns with radial symmetry, suitable for floors or ceilings.

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). Figure 2. Dresser’s illustration of the formal similarity between the musical scale and the Greek anthemion motif.