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Xlll.-(a) DADO. 



The original (Figure 59), in colours and gold, is very attractive, and is 

 intended for surmounting a dado, or perhaps a frieze. 



The blooms are of a cardinal colour in this case, and geometrically con- 

 ventionalised. The spiral or pineapple lines on the top flower can just be traced 

 in the figure, but are more pronounced in the original. The conventionalisation 

 is not much removed from the natural object, but the result is perfect, and the 

 botanical identity assured at once. The leaves are a paler green than obtains 

 in Nature, but this is evidently done to harmonise with the cardinal of the bloom, 

 which it does with good tffect. 



The leaves, like the lateral blooms, are balanced so as to further geometrise 

 the whole idea. The stems are drab. The black band and serrate-edged circle 

 are in gold, except that the lighter circle in it is cardinal, thus matching the 

 Waratah. The Greek pattern at the base is in green on a bluey-slate ground, 

 bordered by th ■ gold band at the top. White is the main ground. 



Xlll.-(b) DADO OR FRIEZE. 



Figure 60 gives a particularly clever study in colour and design. The 

 upper field, broad band, and central circle are in gold, and the lower portion in 

 black, two colours which bring out in bold relief the brilliant scarlet or vermilion 

 of the Waratah blooms, which are in natural pose, giving a high effectiveness, 

 so that no conventionalisation is required. The stem leaves are in natural green, 

 and shaded, and, like the blooms, outlined in black. The circumference leaves' 

 autumn tints harmonise with the gold. The four stars, representing the 

 South 'in Cross, are in pure white, the whole producing a masterpiece of mural 

 decoration such that no other Australian plant could give or produce. It is one 

 of the most beautiful objects that Mr. Henry ever executed, and it seems strange 

 in the=e days, when the Wattl? has so many followers, that the Acacias never 

 appealed to him, for he has not left a single illustration of the Wattle in Applied 

 Art behind him. 



XIV. (c) FRIEZE. 



Tn the samples of Decorative Art left us by the late Mr. Parnell Johnson, 

 L'.cturer in Industiial Art at the Sydney Technical College, the Waratah figures 

 largely — in fact, more so than any other flower — and several of these are now 

 reproduced. His frieze (Figure 61) looks particularly well when seen in colour, 

 and is designed with much taste and artistic feeling. The ground of the upper 

 portion is pale slate, whilst the on a I panel containing the group of three Waratahs 



