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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 277

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crow and laurel, fillet and tripod, emblems of theHyperborean Apollo. This monument was purchased in a palacein the Strada Condotto at Rome. Wo. 56 is a triangular base of a small candelabra, the sides richlyornamented. On each side is a festoon, or garland of fruit andflowers, suspended from two… … No. 5. No. 6. naments, composed of foliage and flowers; and on the third side arealso arabesque ornaments of a similar character, in the centre ofwhich is a vase. No. 3 is one of the feet or supports of a tripod table. The upperpart exhibits a lions head rising outof foliajre ; the lower part,…

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