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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations (1883)

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aracter. Fauns and satyrs are constantly re-presented dancing the con/ax. Cordeliers, Fr. The Franciscan friars are socalled from the rope girdles they wear. Cordevan, O. E. A leather of goat-skin,originally from Cordova in Spain. Spelt alsoCordcioaync; hence cordwaiuer or cordiitcr, ashoemaker.… … Fig. 189. Corean tea-pot. (About a.d. 1562.) of the most ancient art of each. The tea-pot re-presented in Fig. 1S9 is covered with gravings inthe paste imitating the waves of the ocean, andshows four times repeated an imperial Japanesedevice, by which it appears that the piece wasdestined for the…

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