Figure 11. Dresser, an ornament that “may justly be said to embody two natural facts” about water’s behavior against a surface, the way it rebounds and the way it clings.

Figure 11. Dresser, an ornament that “may justly be said to embody two natural facts” about water’s behavior against a surface, the way it rebounds and the way it clings. Fig. 135 from _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 11. Dresser, an ornament that “may justly be said to embody two natural facts” about water’s behavior against a surface, the way it rebounds and the way it clings. Fig. 135 from _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 12. Dresser, Hobgoblin. Figure 4. Decorative motif showing the principle of alternation.