Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 80
quantities, and werearticles of export, but the product did not compareeither in grace of form or in decoration with the laterceramic work of the Greeks. Enameled earthenwarewas used for the finer bowls, platters, etc., and enameledtiles were early used in architecture, as around a doorin the… … Fig. (J7. Car\t:dWooden Spoon. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT and of diorite and other hard stones. Of these amuletsthe scarabcei are the most numerous; one side beingmodeled to represent the scarabeeus beetle (an emblemof life after death), the other side, flat, having incisedhieroglyphs and spiral or…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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