The artificial leaf reverted somewhat to the earlier Italian type, and was mostly displayed in profile with the lobes and serrations carefully composed. The detail though comparatively low in relief, was boldly modelled, and the direction and emphasis of the lobes and veinings of the leaves considered with regard to the composing lines. _Grinling Gibbons School of Carving_ In England the work of the school of Grinling Gibbons was productive of a phase of ornamental expression distinctive for its artistry and technical skill. Conventional details were combined with natural forms of all kinds, the conspicuous arrangement being interlacing scrolls, and festoons and pendant swags. In the artificial leaf, with its boldly grooved surface and accentuated lobes, the evidence of the tool is manifest throughout. The tradition established by the Grinling Gibbons school had a lasting effect upon the native carving, which endured throughout the Georgian period, though largely influenced in detail by French taste--Rococo in particular. _Adam Style_ The designs of the brothers Adam, which were in vogue in the reign of George III, though peculiarly individual and distinctive, were based upon the study of Græco-Roman details. In the Adam style the ornament is delicate in relief, and mostly displayed in profile. Panels and enclosed spaces are occupied, the decorative elements being carefully disposed with regard to balance and stability, with large areas of plain surface. The characteristic and prevailing details are the fan and delicate festoons of leaves or husks, at times of beads. The anthemion is much used on friezes and borders, and compound animal forms, such as the Sphinx, were borrowed from the antique, the same source doubtless inspiring the employment of vases, altars, and tripods. Medallions occur occupied by figures after the manner of the Greek vases. In some instances these were in pottery, the work of Wedgwood. The general structural form was architectural, the mouldings slight in projection and refined in their profiles being decorated by orthodox enrichments. The foliage is mostly artificial in character, the leaf lobes in those of the acanthus type being orderly in arrangement with regard to profile and radial display, with comparatively little modelling. _Empire_ A similar revival of the Antique succeeded the Revolution in France, in the Empire style, which, more literal in reproduction than the Adam work, is characterised with, at times, undesirable severity and precision of detail, particularly in the treatment of the human figure. _System of the Acanthus Leaf_