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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 76

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d in the earlierCeltic knotted work, which seemed partly a re-echoof some types of Eastern and classic ornament,unless we regard it as independently derived, likethem, from primitive structure. It seems to makeitself felt again in a new variety in the strap-workof our Elizabethan period, in which… … VoKG of OX€N/ - CAftfiARA. As an instance of architectural ornament, themotive of which seenis taken from a piece of com-mon every-day usage, we may note the frieze of theRoman circular Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli,which is composed of the heads of oxen, alternating 55 THE UTILITY BASIS AND…

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