Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 231
melsand evolved beautiful styles of their own. One of thefirst of these styles was the careful mingling of blindtooled lines with gilded lines ; another was the use ofsmall gilded roundels—themselves an Oriental idea—in •208 TIIK BOOK: ITS lUSKjRY ANJJ DEVELOPMENT. connection with blind tooling and… … Fig. 101.—Cameo stamp of Apollo and Pegasus found on binding thatbelonged to D. Canevari. Italian, sixteenth century. and sometimes on a bossed piece of metal, as the Alexanderand Caesar are. When on the binding these stamps showas a depression with the design in relief within it. Many of the…
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