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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 272

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ed with rams heads, festoons, birds, insects, and human heads.—And a few more objects of a similar nature, which we do not thinkrequire particularizing. IX.—Miscellaneous BAs-KELtEFS, &c., Akchitectubal and Decorative. Besides the objects above classed and enumerated, there are alarge… … No. 7. TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 255 subjects from domestic life, and some may probably be nothing morethan portions of architectural decorations. Of these, we will noticefirst,— No. 7, a vase of an extremely elegant oval form, with two uprighthandles, ornamented all round with Bacchanalian figures,…

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