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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 226

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heir leadingornamental types may be traced to Asiatic proto-types—the palmette and the rosette, for instance.The scroll, perhaps, they may particularly claimto have developed, and the anthemion, from theirprimitive types. This latter type of ornament, so generally usedby the Greeks as a crest or… … MON, FOR.MERIA- CRESTING THE OUTER RAILING OF THEI.RITISH MUSEUM. MODELLED BY ALFRED STEVF:NSAND CAST IN IRON. THE RACIAL INFLUENCE crest the angles of the pediments of their temples,Is sLiggestiv^e In its general form of a flame, orpair of wings.

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