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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 239

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ological discovery. Here have been foundsome curious clasps, intended, it would seem, torepresent the old Iberian mounted warrior, some-times brandishing the typical Iberian lance. The 1 Le Hon reminds us, in Vhomme fossile, that before the IronAge all bronzes of our western world contained one… … Two parts—the figure of the horseman, and afour-wheeled stand on which the warriors steedis resolutely set—compose this comical antiquity.The riders only article of clothing is a helmet ;while the horse, without a saddle or a bridle, iscompletely nude. This toy, or table ornament,or whatever it may…

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