Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 192
. The Phoenician inscriptions, andabove all, the want of method or arrangement of themesor motives on the articles, stamp them to be of Phoenicianorigin. The silver platter has more meaning in the use ofthe Egyptian motives than some others, but the hiero-lygphics are not to be relied on as… … Fig. 226.—Phoenician Platter, Silver, diameter 7 ins. Drawn by Wallet. (P. & C.) subjects or patterns. The centre piece is Assyrian, andalso the cable ornament. The inner row of animals areAssyrian in feeling, but an Egyptian sphinx is introduced 172 HIS TORIC ORNA MENT. amongst them ; but the…
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