Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 337
l-ig. 354.—Pulpit of theiullau Kait Bey : Filtceuth Century. (L.-P ) 3i6 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. plentiful—at least, of any examples of the best period ofthe Saracen style. The main idea in the design of the … Fig. 355.—A Street in Cairo. (L.-P.) houses was to have them built so that people outsideshould see as little as possible of the inmates or inside,and that the women especially should see as little of street SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. i\i life as possible; so the first row of the windows…
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