ORNAMENTAL VASES AND CHIMNEY TOPS. 



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ir^ old English rural 

 architecture, were pro- 

 duced by grouping va- 

 rious patterns of chim- 

 ney shafts together in 

 one stack, as repre- 

 sented in these two 

 figures. We have, as 

 )^et, seen no success- 

 ful attempt to. construct 

 them in this country; 

 but now, that the Garn- 

 kirk ware is found to 

 bear our climate, it will 

 be easy to add to the 

 beauty of an ornate cot- 

 tage bygroups of chim- 

 neys like these. 



We say, an ornate 

 cottage, — for it must 

 be continually borne in 

 mind, in all the deco- 

 rations of rural archi- 

 tecture, that the degree 

 of ornament should be 

 proportioned to the 

 class and description 

 of the edifice. Thus, 

 it would be in bad taste 

 to put a highly deco- 

 rated chimney top, like 

 c. Fig. ,3, on a very 

 plain cottage. It is only 

 upon a cottage where 

 the veranda, the win- 

 dows, the gables, &c., 

 are all proportionally 

 decorated, that a rich 

 chimney shaft can be 

 correctly used. Har- 

 mony of decoration in a 

 building has, or should 

 have its laws ; and it 

 is no more tolerable 



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Fig. 5. — Elizabethan Chimney Tops. 



Fig. 6. — Elizabethan Chimney Tops. 



