Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 202
Fig. 230.—CEnoclioe, New YorkMuseum. (P. ^ C.) PHCENTCIAN ART. i8i robes of the Assyrian kings mantles (Figs. 162A, 163A), andthe scheme of decoration would likely be a division of thefield into bands and circles, each filled with Egyptian orAssyrian motives. In Cyprus, we can easily infer that the… … 2^ Fig. 240.—CEnochoe, Xew York Museum. (P. & C.) be strongly influenced, as other manufactures were, byEgyptian art. The Phoenicians were noted for theirfamous purple dye obtained from the Murcx and Purpurafamilies of shell-fish. This purple dye was of world-widerenown. Its great advantage was…
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