Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 341
Christian Coptic artist, as,indeed, nearly all the Saracen art in Egypt of this periodwas designed by Coptic Egyptians. Compare with thisthe illuminated Koran of the Sultan Sha Ban, of a yearor two later (a.d. 1368). All the floral work in this is 320 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. distinctly Persian in… … Fig. 359.—Doorway of a Private House. (L.-P.) sculptured decoration from the portal of the mosque otSultan Hasan, in Cairo (a.d. 1358), (Fig. 361). Frombeing carved in stone the ornament is much stiffer than thetwo previous examples, but it is more thoroughly Sara- SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE AND…
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