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Die dekorative kunst des altertums; eine populäre darstellung

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876- · 1914 · Leipzig, Berlin, B. G. Teubner · 100 pictures

Frederik Poulsen's popular survey of ancient decorative art, published by Teubner in Leipzig and Berlin in 1914 for German general readers and students of ornament. Halftone photographs and line cuts of Greek, Near Eastern and Egyptian vases, plates, reliefs and metalwork, with meander bands, spirals, rosettes, palmettes and animal friezes that can be lifted as border patterns, roundels and vessel silhouettes.

Decoration and ornament

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