Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 253
, wasbut copies of the earlier wooden construction. The Doricorder seems to have been no exception to this rule, for 232 HISTORIC ORNAMENT, here again the stone-cutter has borrowed from the car-penter. To go back for some of the supposed beginningsof the Doric frieze, the alabaster frieze, shown in… … Fig. 285.—Vase of Womans Form, Troy. (P. & C.) It resembles the Doric triglyphs and metopes in con-sisting of a double design ; two semicircles back to back,divided by a vertical rectangular band, which is sub-divided by a vertical central division, having rosettesarranged vertically on either…
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