Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 184
ed off by such a lattice, and in one of the WOOD-WORK. 57 Coptic churches a screen of this kind forms a cheap but gracefulsubstitute for the more elaborate wood and ivory carving. It is in the houses of Cairo that this lattice-work is seen in itsgreatest profusion and variety. Fig. 12 gives several… … FIG. 56A.—LATTICE WORK. (South. Kensington Museum.) rapidity, and partly because the modern Cairenes are enamouredof the unsightly architecture and plate-glass of Europe (which isunhappily seen introduced in the foremost window in fig. 12).The South Kensington Museum is peculiarly rich in…
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