t by their affinity to the style and decoration of thegreat national buildings ; we might almost be tempted to thinkthat their designs and colour compositions were supplied byarchitects. The same characteristics are to be recognized on the vasesfigured in the royal tombs at Thebes.^ They are… … Fig. 322.—Ivory Castnnet. Louvre. they were of any materia! but metal, of gih bronze or gold, or oi 390 A History of Art in Anxient Egypt. silver. Incrustations in enamel or coloured//V/r« dura relieve themonotony of the metal surface. Some of these pieces seem tohave been very large. Their…
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