Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 106
s pier, withcapital and the Hathoric pier 4 Illjlli.iMuiii, (Fig. 114, with the head of thegoddess Hathor, are both deco-rated. We next come to the octagonal(Fig. 115), and the sixteen-sidedpillars (Fig. 116, w^hich arealmost Greek in their classicsimplicity; the latter is fluted..All forms of… … ;! V ill \l ■ ^^m ^ip ■a§i B ^ Q in ■^ 1-^ b= =s= -t. Fig. 113.—Pier with Capital. (P. k C.) Fig. 114.—Hathoric Pier. (P. & C.) exceptional, and therefore not typical Egyptian, in havingthe abacus directly under the architrave; the sixteen-sided 86 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. pillar is especially…
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