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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 64

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Chunjuju and Zap. t The temple of Barolli, the pagoda of Kanaruc, etc. THE LYCTAX SAECOPHAGUS. 35 tinctly recall the form of immense baskets of bamboo wicker-work,adonied ^^itll garlaiids of pearls, little figm-es, bands, and rings. Houses are still built in India Avith vertical walls of… … To conclude tliis gênerai review of wooden constructions, let usexamine tlie Lycian sarcopliagus, at the Britisb ^luseimi, a workwliicli dmably reproduces mommients wliicli were built of wood intliat countiy at a very remote eix)ch. It is eut in three blocks ofstone in the fomi of an enormous…

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