g. 96). No figures of men or animalsare to be found here. The simple and perhaps monotonous formsborrowed from the vegetable kingdom, were thoroughly wellsuited for stuffs destined to be stepped upon by countless feet. If,in our fancy, we clothe the patterns of the carved sills in all thecharm of… … Fig. 258.—Detail ofembroidery ; from Layard. 37? A History of Art in Ciiald.ea and Assyria. have clothed them in a robe of brilliant green, studded with thepure white of the marguerite, the gold of the ranunculus, and therich satin of the purple tulip.
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