Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 175
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. … Fig. 205.—Bronze Cup, diameter 11 ins.; from Layard. It may be reasonably assumed that the Egyptian motiveswere copied from ivories or painted vases brought to CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN ART. 55 Assyria by the Phoenicians, and that those master workersin bronze, the Assyrians, copied such designs on…
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