Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 319
-^r Fi^. 259.—Assyrian Homaor Sacred Tree. ¥\\l. 2U0.— Tree of Life, Assyrian. where we find the human figure is used in the design, oranimals of a free and natural type, as the Byzantine silkdesigns were invariably taken from Greek mythologicalsources and scriptural subjects. Genuine examples…
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