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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 365

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tombs, asin the famous examples in the Brou church at Bourg-en-Bresse. In no other country did figure-sculptureplay so important a part in the decorative system.Equally appropriate and decorative with these archi-tectural sculptures was the minor decorative figure-work in wood and ivory, as… … Fig. 349. Ki.i.ii.i^ 1 iioM Base ofPortal, Notre Dame.

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