Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 61
THE YELLOW RACE. 37 He saw that the light canes which composed the balus- trades of the portico were joined according to the same method, and he perceived that the rudely carved heads which finished the ends of the horizontal pieces of the porch outside were merely a kind of cork fitted into the… … Ornamentation of the Bamboo ends. — Fig. 15. Reflection, however, suggested to Epergos that for the origination of the idea of so framing these canes of various length and thickness, the first condition was the possession of the materials. But no vegetable growth of this kind was to be found among…
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