Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 51
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… … Fig. 51.—Pinak or Plate, Archaic Period, from Camiros, Rhodes, showingFylfot, and Sun Signs, and Sacred Boar. (British ]\Iuseum.) the Greek ornaments are but developments of Egyptianand Assyrian forms. The fret used by the Greeks hasbeen found in Eg3pt in the ceiling ornament of tombsmore than a…
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