Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 220
hitahs, antelopes, hounds and birds, pursue one anotherin narrow borders, and bands of scroll-work or twist-pattern dividethe different zones of the ornamentation, while the interveningspaces are filled with ducks and other water-fowl. The groundis generally covered with bold arabesques, or with a… … FIG. 73.—INSCRIPTION INTERWOVEN WITH FIGURES ON THE BAPTISTERY OF ST. LOUIS. vessels in narrow bands, sometimes (but rarely) having the topsof the letters chased in the image of human faces or interwovenwith the legs of an upper border of beasts of the chase (fig. 73).Occasionally a meaningless…
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