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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 107

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AEGEAN AND ASIATIC pie heavy torus capitals. A notable architectural mo¬ tive, frequently recurring in Mycenaean art, is that shown … wall at Knossos. Of Cretan pottery comparatively little Column irom has survived, but the elaborate late Minoan vase from Knossos shown in Fig. 84 reveals a highly developed pattern of conventional leaf-forms. Fig. 85 from a sarcophagus found near Gortyna, shows a curi¬ ously conventionalized…

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