Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 330
at page 240, so that the merits of its workman-ship may be better appreciated. The painter also made use of this motive. In a bas-relief fromthe palace of Assurbanipal we find the round-headed doorwayillustrated in Fig. 136. Its rich decoration must have been carriedout in glazed bricks, similar to… … Fig. 136.—Door ornament ; rem Kouyundjik. After Rawlinson. Vegetable forms brought luck to the Assyrian decorator.Even after taking a motive from a foreign style of ornament heunderstood, so to speak, how to naturalize a plant and to makeits forms expressive of his own individuality. Our only…
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