Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 117
at fromFlorence in Fig. 48, in which only the fundamentalprinciple of the anthemion remains, the classic honey-suckle-like motives being replaced by sprays of wheatand other plant forms, highly conventionalized. Itmust be understood that by the anthemion-motive ismeant not merely the Greek ornament… … FRl£ZE.CA5r^rr?m FIORBHCE. Fig. 48.—-Anthemion from a Cast is Florei^ce. the palmette, the other from the lotus; the one oftenframed in an oval, the other never so enclosed. Thebasic idea of both features of the combined motive is a
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