Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 50
concentric circles, with theS-shaped sun-snakes, as on the prehistoric whorls fromHissarlik, and very frequently with the solar divinities, asthe horse, boar, ram, lion, ibex, and goose, &c. It is foundon Cyprian and Rhodian pottery and on the geometric pottery of Greece. Its appearance on many… … 30 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. new meaning to it, regarding it as merely a substitute forthe symbol of the cross. Some writers have argued, with a good deal of plausi-bility, that the Greek fret pattern, Chinese and Japanesefrets, were only developments from the fylfot. This ispurely conjectural, for as…
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