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The arts in early England (1915)

Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932, Webster, Adam Blyth, 1882- · New York, E.P. Dutton · leaf 477

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rcestershown here PI. lvii, 3. This is probably a degeneration ofthe guilloche, and this origin is betrayed by the broochesshown PI. lvii, 4, a pair from Mildenhall, Wilts, in theMuseum at Devizes. The ornament round the circle hereis obviously a disintegrated guilloche and it might easily leadon… … i, natural size j 3, 4, 6, 7, approximately natural size ; 5, slightly reduced ORNAMENT ON SAUCER BROOCHES 315 and when it is treated in sharp decided fashion it is evidenceof early date, but this evidence is of course rendered nugatorywhen on the same piece occur motives that are notoriously ofa…

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