Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 265
design, the whole sur-face of the body being covered with engraved figure com-positions and ornamental borders. They were probablyused to contain jewellery and trinkets. Some very finespecimens of these hand-mirrors and cistse may be seen inthe British Museum. The furnishing of the houses of the… … Fig. 215.—Roman Bronze Candelabra. such as those of Pompeii and Herculaneum, described inthe first vol. Tables and tripods of bronze or braziers weresupported on three legs, some of which were made with
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