Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1873)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 55
or rather oval series, constituting the unit of the or- dinary horizontal series.* And this ornament is import- ant, as anticipating the anthemion or most popular floral ornament of the Greeks, so common in architecture and in the terra-cotta vases. The Egyptians, however, anti- cipated the Greeks… … 'lemple at Denderah. * It is found painted on a palanquin in a picture in the Tombs of the Kings, and is not unlike a series of the hats of the God Nilus, with its seven drooping lilies.
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