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The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)

Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 83

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n, has got adistinct border, which at the same time, by the force ofcontrast, sets off the enclosed surface and gives to it an effectiveboundary. F 2 68 SCANDINA VIAN INDUSTRIAL ART. In Fig. 62, another gold disk, we find a new pattern, in whichthe geometrical ornament is the principal feature :… … Figs. 60-63.—Pendent ornaments of gold and silver. Gotland. cylindrical loop, we perceive an animal ornament j it has some-what the appearance of a human bust with lifted arms, but if wemake the necessary comparisons it is obvious that we have beforeus a figure of an animal with lifted fore-paws.…

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