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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 145

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with the svaslika must be noticed. Itsown complete form, when its returned limbs are prolonged as in fig, 44, suggestedlarger units of design, composed of four sections, corresponding with the fouroutlined sections of the diaper, fig. 20 ; that is to say, with the diagonally oppositefigures… … Fig. 51 The top right and lower left corners of this figure linked by the centralconnecting line, shews it obvious relationship with the svastika. The design is 118 STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN elaborated by the interlacing of the lines of other similar figures; and were itnot for the…

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