Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 356
Plate V. of Owen Jones Grammar ofOrnament we have examples of Egyptian work in which this redball occurs. Thus, it rests on a lotus in the bow of a boat, it Fig. 161.—Group of Lotus Buds usedON Buddhist Altars. ground, or a red ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 339 surmounts a stern-post, it occurs on a… … Fig. 163.—Chinese Anthemion. This ornament was derived from the flower of the BuddhistLotus (Nelumbium), and the leafage surrounding it from Clouds. wings and asps placed laterally. On an old lantern, pendent inthe Tofuku-ji near Kioto, for permission to photograph which Iam much indebted to the…
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