The anthemion was used widely by the Greeks to embellish ceramics as shown in the illustration. Later, it was used by both the Greeks and Romans to decorate a wide variety of objects as well as the roof lines and collumns of buildings.
This is the "book plate" page from "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", published in 1908. The illustration was by John R. Neill. This copy came from the Internet Archive's PDF copy, which can be seen here:
http://www.archive.org/details/dorothywizardino00baum2