Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 259
238 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. beams, and joists supporting the roof, as well as thesecondary decorative construction, had its origin in woodenconstruction, and there is hardly any doubt but that the … Fig. 293.—Gold Plate Ornament, from Troy. Mycenian palace was its prototype. The Greeks of laterdays forgot the borrowing of the timber construction, and
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