Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 47
with which the stone celts werefastened to their hafts.The raised, as well as theflat twisted - like bands,are derivatives from thetwisted strings that wouldnaturally be tied aroundthe pottery of an earlydate to carry it by (Fig. 45)- The spirals, zigzags, ring-crosses, wheels, tri-skeles,… … Fig. 46.—Urn of the Stone Age found inSwedish Dolmen. [Scand. Arts.) THE BRONZE AGE. 27 origin in Egypt, India, Central Asia, or Greece. At firstthey were used as isolated signs, or pictographs, to
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