Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 162
hatwe have any knowledge of.It is now in the Kensing-ton Museum, and repre-sents the figure of a younggirl, or Bacchante, with ayounger girl attending her.The figure has a well-designed arrangement ofdrapery hanging in grace-ful folds. She stands at analtar, and is in the act ofmaking an offering.… … Fig. 113. -Leaf of a Romau Diplvch.(S. K. M.) It was found at the bottom ofa well at Montier-en-Der, and is much injured. The latterhalf shows the figure of a female standing at an altar, and 1-14 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. holding in her hands inverted flaming torches. Thesefamous plaques, which measure…
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