Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 716
veniently mentioned here that all the four suits of ourplaying-cards, three of which must be derived from leaves (one, the spade,somewhat resembling a conventional ivy-leaf), occur in Byzantine ornament,usually upon textiles.1 In the ceremonial book of Constantine Porphyrogenitusthe spades upon… … Fig. 439. Transenna. S. Vitale : showing various treatment of acanthus and its use as a scroll. the lotus occurs carved in stone at Kaisariani in Attica, before the cave atAthens containing the spring known as the Clepsydra, and on various fragmentsof uncertain provenance discovered on the…
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