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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 129

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markable and probably, to my readers, unexpected appearance of what theyknow as the Greek key plainer. In due course I shall explain how it wasthat this tansverse section of the diaper came to be taken for the production ofthe key -border. I next treat the first of the elementary diapers, fig. 5,… … Pursuing the idea of taking a transverse section of the diapers, we find thatfig. 15 so treated produces the same double key, (fig. 25), with the addition ofa central limb. 102 STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN

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