. The artizanfollowed the example of the sculptor ; he gave his attentionto the bas-relief and it repaid his trouble. Among the figuressprinkled with so lavish a hand over stone and wood, ivory andmetal, some were traced with the point or engraved in intaglio ;others were beaten up with the hammer… … Fig. 261.—Egyptian mirror, actual size. Louvre. Drawn l>y Saint-Elme Gautier, Comparison between Egypt and Chald^ea. 393 in the round. No suspicion of the wealth of suggestion latentespecially in the latter, seems to have dawned upon the Assyrianmind. If we except a few terra-cotta statuettes,…
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