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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 70

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on. I conclude this section with a few examples of the adaptation of floralforms to architectural purposes (plate 21). Fig. 4 shows the lotus leaf used asa rail support ; flg 3 is the common form of bronze capping to a newel of redlacquer. In fig. 5 the pointed ball is replaced by an inverted lotus… … Pine Iree highly conventionalized.(Design for wall-paper.)

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