Birdwood, George C. M. (George Christopher Molesworth), Sir, 1832-1917 · [London] : Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall · leaf 541
reast ornament, the cone is developed into a form conical in shape, but Hom-\i\^Q in detail, and the flower is metamor- phosed into a strange Chinese style of scroll. That it is the knop and flower pattern is proved beyond dispute by the curved line which unites the base of the knop with the base… … 4 border of the plate. A very beautiful variation of the pattern is one of the commonest seen on Sindh tiles [5], in which the knop has become the regular Saracenic cone, and the flower is not the head of the Horn, or lotus, but a full-blown iris. On Delhi and Cashmere shawl borders [6] the…
Decorative arts · Hindu mythology
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