Statues, vases and sculpture

I include under the word decorations-statues, vases, basso-relievos, sculpture, &c., which have no use, but as additional enrichments to the ornaments of architecture; on the contrary, where these decorations are applied to plain buildings without ornaments, they are marks of bad taste *. *[Instances of this often occur in the neighbourhood of large cities and towns, where the taste of a carpenter, and not of an architect, puts balustrades to houses without any entablatures, or, perhaps, places them in a garret window, while the plain parapet wall is loaded with Mercuries, vases, pine-apples, eagles, acorns, and round balls.]