Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 72
PRIMITIVE RUSH MAT AND ASSYRIAN BORDER. THE UTITJTY BASIS AND INIF.UENCEalways to be traced, and it seems to orain from it acertain streni^th and adaptability. Anollier type of ornament may be traced to theconstructive necessities of wattle and wicker work,so much used by primitive man in the… … ASSVRIAN ENAMELLED ilLE. loche ornament, so much used by the ancients—Assyrian, Egyptian, and Greek—may be compared,in their structure and arrangement of line, with theform taken by the withy, or cord twisted aroundthe upright canes or staves of a wattled fence, asseen in horizontal section. The…
Decoration and ornament
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