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Damasks : their origin & ornamentation (1920)

Stroheim & Romann · New York : Stroheim & Romann · leaf 30

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LATE GOTHIC POMEGRANATE PATTERNS FROM the pointed oval scheme, originating in China, there evolved, in the late Gothic period, a whole col- lection of designs which during the nineteenth century came to be known as "pomegranate patterns." The pomegranate form itself, like the thistle, arti- choke… … Pomegranate pattern with paired birds, Stroheim ^ Romann No. 21816

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