Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 178
materials as ivory, gold, orhand-made laces, where it is quite legitimate to give to theornament that necessary character of elaborate detailwhich always adds to the preciousness of the material. IVORY CARVINGS. 159 Sometimes the carved ivory cabinets from India haveBiblical subjects in the panels,… … CP^^Si Fig. 127.—Ivory Casket with Gold Clasp and Hinge; Indian. (Jacquemart.) females with outstretched arms form a natural palanquinfor the seated figure of an Indian divinity; other figuresact as palanquin bearers, and the intervening spaces arerichly filled with characteristic foliage and…
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