Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 113
d. Other plants, as the thistle, convolvulus, daisy, vines, andgrapes, &c., were used very much in decoration, especiallyduring the Akhenaten period (Eighteenth and NineteenthDynasties), when the decoration was of a florid kind. Thepapyrus is seen in the ceiling ornament Fig. 123, No 6,at Fig.… … 7 ■ 8 Fig. 123.—Specimens of Ceiling Decoration at Thebes; from Prisse. (P. 6c C.) 92 EGYPTIAN ART. 93 surfaces, and the judicious balance maintained in thecontrasting units of the ornament.
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