Chapter II

METAL-WORKS, POTTERY, AND PLASTIC FORMS GENERALLY.--1.
The form should be most carefully adapted to use, being studied
for elegance and beauty of line as well as for capacity, strength,
mobility, etc. 2. In ornamenting the construction care should be
taken to preserve the general form, and to keep the decoration
subservient to it by the low relief or otherwise; the ornament
should be so arranged as to enhance by its lines the symmetry
of the original form, and assist its constructive strength. 3.
If arabesques or figures in the round are used, they should
arise out of the ornamental and constructive forms, and not be
merely applied. 4. All projecting parts should have careful
consideration, to render them as little liable to injury as is
consistent with their purpose. 5. It must ever be remembered that
repose is required to give value to ornament, which in itself is
secondary and not principal.