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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 135

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ting of a rod or sceptre entwined by twowinged serpents. 122 THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. Cabling, the filling of the flutes of columnswith cables, or the cables so disposed. Cabossed (in heraldry), is when the head ofa beast is cut off by a section parallel to theface. Caissons, the sunk panels of… … with arched legs to take the diameter of con-cave or convex bodies. Calyx (in architecture and sculpture), thecup of a flower, or the small green leaves on

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