Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 194
e story of theseEgyptian mysteries, used them merely as decorative units. PHCENICIAN ART. 173 The workmanship is admirable ; first the work is beaten upin repousse and then chased afterwards, and may bedescribed as a mixture of the two methods. A beautiful Egyptian design of a cow and calf in… … Fig. 228.—Centre Medalliou ; from a Cup from Griffi. (P. i C.) design. They would be sold to the Egyptians, as theformer supplied the latter in most articles of metalworkmanship; many rims and handles of elaborateworkmanship have been found, but scarcely any wholeforms of these vases, though we…
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