Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 287
Fig. 316.—Greek Ivy Meander Border. softer-leaved variety of acanthus—the mollis—while theGreeks used the spinosus, or prickly-leaved variety. The decorations of the Roman mouldings were lesselegant than those of the Greeks, owing to the contoursbeing segments of circles where the Greeks used forms… … fig- 317-—Decorated Mouldings from the Temple of Minerva Polias ; Ogee Ovolo, and Beads.
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