Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 201
d by Renaissance fanciful patterns;and then the conventionalized beast and its symbolism 1 In India, the elephant is a very common element in a pattern ; inEgypt, the serpent; in Persia, the lion. In animal patterns, certainemblems were grouped together. The lion and the goose representstrength and… … Page 107. Patterns. 107 disappeared from European decoration, except when itwas a direct copy of an Oriental design. Certain symbolical forms have, however, survived. Theeagle has always meant empire, and the double-headedeagle, a double royalty.1 Ezekiel represents Babylonand Egypt, symbolically,…
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