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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 144

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. Details of embroidery patterns are shown at Figs. 164,165. The sills or thresholds of the doors of the palaces weresometimes sculptured in low relief on large slabs ofalabaster stone. The design is evidently copied from anembroidered carpet; perhaps the central part of the onegiven (Fig. 166) is… … O >. V p- 124- HISTORIC ORNAMENT.

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