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The art of the Saracens in Egypt (1886)

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 173

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FIG 4s —fARVED PAXEI. RROM THE MAR STAN OK K MAI 146 ART OF THE SARACENS. averted like the eagles; over the cockatoos are a correspondingpair of deer, each with an eagle on his back, with wings spread,having just alighted on his prey \ and, to crown the panel, is acentral representation of two… … FIG. 49.—LATTICE-WORK. (South Kensington Museum.) matched, below the cockatoos, by similarly arranged figures : tobalance the eagles and deer, a pair of winged Assyrian monstersor centaurs, resembling that on the first panel described above,with the same three-pointed crown ; and underneath these,…

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