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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 195

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the earlier Etruscanwork except in greater variety of form. The bronzeand silver mirrors deserve notice for the beauty of thehandles and backs. The famous Hildesheim Treasure,discovered in 1868 at Hildesheim, Germanv, com-prising gold and silver bowls, platters and other vesselsmagnificently… … Fig. 195. Books Recommended: As before, Axdersox and Spiers, Baumeister, Jacobsthal,Kachel, Vulliamy. Also, F. Albertolli: Fregi trovati negliScavi del Foro Trajano (Milan, 1824) ; Ornamenti diversi An-tonini (Milan, 1843); Manuale di varii ornamenti . . . e fra-menti antichi (Rome, 1781-1790).—J.…

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