Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 730
art, ii. 952 12 e. g. the Fatimid frieze at Cairo, reproduced in the same place, Fig. 101, p. 332. Cf. alsothe inscribed rosettes on the fa9ade of the Mosque of Muayyad (el-Ahmar), also at Cairo, figuredby Van Berchem, Corpus, &c, PI. XXI, No. 2, p. 71 ; the sculptured slabs at Torcello, a.d.… … Fig. 450. Sculptured ornament of the eleventh century on the ambo in the Cathedral ofTorcello : mouldings, late sacred-tree design with cone at top. (Alinari.) The Pine-cone. The pine-cone (cf. p. 700), derived from ancient Assyrian art, is used inbuilding up the centres of the great rosettes in…
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