Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 178
istinctive that calls for special notice. Thevessels, such as vases, cups, and buckets of bronze, areelegant in form and decoration (Fig. 209 . Jewellery and personal decoration have only been foundin a limited quantity, and not of a very good quality indesign or material: the bas-reliefs furnish… … Fig. 209.—iironze Bucket; ixoni Layaid. (P. i^, C.) cylinders usually were engraved with subjects of a re-ligious character. The illustration shows one of the bestengraved Assyrian cylinders that has yet been found.It represents the king and deities at the worship of thevSacred Tree, and the God…
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