Symbols, Signs and Signets

259 Pages·2012·20.59 MB·English

by  Ernst Lehner

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HERALDIC DESIGN: ITS ORIGINS, ANCIENT FORMS AND MODERN
USAGE, Hubert Allcock. (0-486-42975-X) VICTORIAN PATTERNS AND
DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, G.A. and M.A. Audsley. (0-486-25756-8)
PLANTS AND FLOWERS: 1,761 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS, Alan E. Bessette and William K. Chapman (eds.). (0-486-
26957-4) ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS FROM ARCHITECTURAL SHEET
METAL: THE COMPLETE BROSCHART & BRAUN CATALOG, CA.
1900, Jacob Broschart & Wm. A. Braun. (0-486-27039-4) A GRAMMAR OF
JAPANESE ORNAMENT AND DESIGN, Thomas W. Cutler. (0-486-42976-
8) TREASURY OF CHINESE DESIGN MOTIFS, Joseph D’Addetta. (0-486-
24167-X)
PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT 100 PLATES,
H. Dolmetsch. (0-486-42834-6) CHINESE LATTICE DESIGNS, Daniel
Sheets Dye. (0-486-23096-1)
DESIGNS FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO, Jorge Enciso. (0-486-22794-
4)
DECORATIVE FRAMES AND BORDERS, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. (ed.). (0-
486-22928-9) ART NOUVEAU FRAMES AND BORDERS, Carol Belanger
Grafton. (0-486-24513-6)
BANNERS, RIBBONS AND SCROLLS, Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-
24443-1)
400 FLORAL MOTIFS FOR DESIGNERS, NEEDLEWORKERS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, William Briggs and Co., Ltd., Carol Belanger Grafton
(ed.). (0-486-25162-4) HUMOROUS VICTORIAN SPOT
ILLUSTRATIONS, Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-24896-8) 1,001
FLORAL MOTIFS AND ORNAMENTS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-25352-X)
SILHOUETTES: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF VARIED
SILHOUETTES: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF VARIED
ILLUSTRATIONS, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (0-486-23781-8)
TREASURY OF ANIMAL ILLUSTRATIONS: FROM EIGHTEENTH-
CENTURY SOURCES, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (0-486-25805-X)
TREASURY OF ILLUMINATED BORDERS IN FULL COLOR, Carol
Belanger Grafton. (0-486-25699-5) TREASURY OF JAPANESE DESIGNS
AND MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN, Carol Belanger Grafton
(ed.). (0-486-24435-0) FULL-COLOR VICTORIAN VIGNETTES AND
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN: 344 ANTIQUE
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, PRINTED ONE SIDE ONLY, Carol Belanger
Grafton (ed.). (0-486-24477-6) SCOTTISH TARTANS IN FULL COLOR,
James Grant. (0-486-27046-7)
HISTORIC ORNAMENT, C. B. Griesbach. (0-486-23215-8)
ANIMALS: 1,419 COPYRIGHT-FREE ILLUSTRATIONS OF MAMMALS,
BIRDS, FISH, INSECTS, ETC., Jim Harter (ed.). (0-486-23766-4)
TRANSPORTATION: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM 19TH-CENTURY
SOURCES, Jim Harter. (0-486-24499-7) WOMEN: A PICTORIAL
ARCHIVE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES, Jim Harter. (0-
486-23703-6) HANDBOOK OF DESIGNS AND DEVICES, Clarence P.
Hornung. (0-486-20125-2)
VINTAGE SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHILDREN: 795 CUTS FROM THE
TEENS AND TWENTIES, Judy M. Johnson (ed.). (0-486-26351-7)
SYMBOLS, SIGNS AND SIGNETS, Ernst Lehner. (0-486-22241-1)
ART DECO DESIGNS AND MOTIFS, Marcia Loeb. (0-486-22826-6)
JAPANESE DESIGN MOTIFS, Matsuya Company. (0-486-22874-6)
PUEBLO DESIGNS: THE “RAIN BIRD,” H. P. Mera. (0-486-22073-7)
HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT, Franz S. Meyer. (0-486-20302-6)
WILLIAM MORRIS FULL-COLOR PATTERNS AND DESIGNS, William
Morris. (0-486-25645-6) DESIGNS AND MOTIFS FROM INDIA, Marty
Noble. (0-486-43403-6)
SOUTHEAST ASIAN DESIGNS, Marty Noble. (0-486-43106-1)
5000 DECORATIVE MONOGRAMS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE,
J. O’Kane (ed). (0-486-42979-2) TRADITIONAL FLORAL DESIGNS AND
MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE, Madeleine Orban-
Szontagh. (0-486-26106-9) RACINET’S HISTORIC ORNAMENT IN FULL
COLOR, Auguste Racinet. (0-486-25787-8) DECOUPAGE: THE BIG
COLOR, Auguste Racinet. (0-486-25787-8) DECOUPAGE: THE BIG
PICTURE SOURCEBOOK, Eleanor Rawlings (ed.). (0-486-23182-8) ART
DECO SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS AND MOTIFS: 513 ORIGINAL
DESIGNS, William Rowe. (0-486-24924-7) MACHINERY AND
MECHANICAL DEVICES: A TREASURY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY
CUTS, William Rowe. (0-486-25445-3) DECORATIVE ART OF THE
SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS, Dorothy S. Sides. (0-486-20139-2) ISLAMIC
DESIGNS IN COLOR, N. Simakoff. (0-486-27477-2)
CELTIC STENCIL DESIGNS, Co Spinhoven. (0-486-26427-0)
BIG BOOK OF GRAPHIC DESIGNS AND DEVICES, Typony Inc. (0-486-
26261-8)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE,
Eva Wilson. (Not available in the United Kingdom or Egypt.) (0-486-25339-
2) NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Eva Wilson. (Not available in the United Kingdom.) (0-
486-25341-4) WILDFLOWER DESIGNS AND MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS
AND CRAFTSPEOPLE, Charlene Tarbox. (0-486-27700-3) ART
NOUVEAU FLORAL PATTERNS AND STENCIL DESIGNS IN FULL
COLOR, M. P. Verneuil. (0-486-40126-X)

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Copyright © 1950 by Ernst Lehner.
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TO HANSI
in sincere gratitude for her faithful and
unfaltering help and collaboration.
CLASPED HANDS, EARS AND POMEGRANATE
Union, Fertility, Posterity (Asia Minor) from J. Bryant’s
Analysis of Antient Mythology (London 1807)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
WITH TRUE APPRECIATION for their gracious assistance I wish to thank my
many friends and colleagues who helped make this book possible.
My special thanks go to Hofrat Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven of Vienna, Mr.
John Schlepkow of Hamburg, Miss Jeanne Lanty of Paris, Mr. Paul O. Althaus
of Zuerich, and Mr. Paul Baratte of London for their conscientious efforts in
checking material, names and dates.
Also my gratitude to Mr. Fred Liebesny of New York for making the library
of my late friend, Kurt Libesny, available to me; to Mr. Mathias von Mandel of
Greenwich, Connecticut, for providing me with valuable Chinese and Japanese
material from his Far East collection, to Mr. Ervine Metzl of New York for his
encouragement and important contribution and to Miss Ruth Goldberg of New
York for her most friendly collaboration.