Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 276
Fig. 231.—Travelling Carriage ; English; Fourteenth Centurj-. (P.) common. They were long-shaped covered vehicles onfour wheels, with or without panelled sides, and werepainted and decorated (Figs. 230, 231). Carts for carryingand for agricultural purposes were used in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman… … Fig. 232.—Table (Kursy); Saracenic. (L. P.) at the same dates : these were two-wheeled vehicles, eachwheel being usually of one solid piece of wood. The Saracens were very ingenious in the using of wood, VOL. II. S 258 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. as in carpentry, carving, and turning in the lathe.…
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