Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 338
e 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 was placedhigh up, and all the windows were thickly latticed, so thatlittle could be seen from the… … Fig. 356.—Lattice-work, S.K.M. (L.-P.) work, supported on brackets, that contained the water invessels and other drinks ; the currents of air that rushedthrough the lattice-work served to keep the drinking water cool. The meshrebiyas are often very beautiful with theirvaried patterns of elaborate…
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