Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 177
rs, not more than five or six,but they used them with great advantage and decorative 50 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. effect, and always in flat tints. Their painted figureswere, as a rule, not intended lor any other meaning thantheir geometric ornament, and merely used as units in theornamental scheme (Fig.… … Fig. 207. Cylinder; from Soldi (P. & C.) Fi. 208.-—Assyrian Cylinder. Worship of Sacred Tree.(B.M.) (P. & C.) oxide of copper completes, as near as possible, the rangeof their palette. The nearly universal colour of the groundwork was blue,a deep dark blue from the lapis lazuli. At…
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