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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 184

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Fig. 184. fillets (Figure 186; Plate VIII, 3, 6) ; the bucrane orox-skull, likewise a sacrificial symbol (Plate IX, 7) ; thedolphin and steering-paddle symbolizing Neptune andwater (Figure 18.5) ; the Imperial eagle, and trophiesof arms and armor, are common in Roman decorativeart. The most…

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