Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 192
n of Xerxes,B.C. 485-465, excavated by M.and Mme. Dleulafoy,^ the artisticskill of the Persians in this kind ofwork, and their sense of Its value,and the treatment of colour andornament, dates back to a veryearly period. In the famous frieze of archers,which formed part of the wall de-coration of… … LOTUS CAPITAL,PHIL.^. THE CLIMATIC INFLUENCE relieved upon a field of torquolse blue, formedby the glazed bricks by which the frieze is con-structed. The fitrures and ornament must havebeen moulded or stamped in relief upon the claywhile soft, and cut up into bricks, and afterwardsfired and glazed…
Decoration and ornament
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