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Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 109

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94 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART … made by binding the fibres into bundles,and so making a kind of openwork, which may well have ledto the pattern of connectedrhombs which is so usual onOriental pottery.One of the most famJliar early motivesis wooden framing. This is continuallyimitated in the stone figures of doorwaysin the tombs.…

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