Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 225
ner portion of the parapet wall (Fig. 257) 2 04 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. of an elongated Q-g-g shape, which is one of the rare excep-tions of ornament that is really Persian. The Assyrian daisy, patera, or rosette is a verycharacteristic ornament in Persian decoration (Figs. 249,258). This is also a… … Fig. 261.—Upper Part of Parapet AVall, Susa. (P. & C.) the palmate-crowned tree stem. The prototype of theformer may be seen as an ideal rendering from natureof the cypress or pine-tree (Fig. 259) in the Assyrianillustration of a royal park. The contour of this ornamentmay have reminded the…
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