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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 193

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the smallest objects of familiarornamentation, such as the little boxes of gold,ivory, and tortoise shell used for snuft and bon-bons, small toilet articles and the like. Thee-ssence of the style is that these curves shallnever be continuous for more than a short dis-tance, nor make more than one… … Rock-cut Building: Tomb at Telmissus, AsiaMinor; Plan. native rock without the aid of masonry, orwith but little masonry. Tond)s so excavatedare common in Egy])t, Lycia, Petra, Etruria,and Jeiiisaleni, generally presenting an archi-tectural front oidy, with dark interior cham- ROCK WORK Ellora,…

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