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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 727

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Fig. 447. Part of the facade of the Palace of Mshatta : Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin,showing elaborate vine-scrolls, birds, &c, with large band of zigzag, rosettes, &c. P. 704. animals in its convolutions, upon the small bronze mirrors of the period.Chinese documents tell us that the… … OEIENTAL MOTIVES 03 to be identified with Fergana. The same region must also have given the vineto India. If, therefore, the vine as ornament was not used either east or west

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