Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 174
ice—the exquisite bronze bowls, cups, andplatters, made in repousse and finished off with theengravers burin (Fig. 204, 205). In these products wemay recognise the renaissance of Assyrian art, based onthe art of the Egyptians. That they must have had theirorigin in Assyria no one can doubt, when we… … ri a Ph p o (B.C. 859—824) now in the British Museum ; and althoughthe designs on some of them are distinctly Egyptian (Fig.204), not one specimen of such bowls or platters has yetbeen found in the Valley of the Nile. 154 HISTORIC ORNAMENT.
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