Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 61
yzantine originals topurely sacred Celtic amulets of a new national type of orna-ment. Fig. 62, from Hildebrands Scandinavian Arts,is a barbaric copy of a Roman medallion. It is a poorattempt to copy the Imperial head, and the inscription isbadly and meaninglessly copied. On the reverse is afigure… … Fig. 62.—Barbarian Copy of a Roman Medallion fo ind in Sweden. {Scand. Arts.) broken, owing to the invasion of the Huns, and for a longtime afterwards they were left to themselves without
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