Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 128
more immediate intervention with China deter-mined the motives. Nor is the Saracenic influence obscured, sincein every part of the field and border is seen the perfect rhythm ofgraceful arabesques. Such carpets represent, in fact, the transi-tion from those earlier pieces to the higher products of… … Plate 17. So-called Polish or Polonaise Carpet est the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York EARLY RUG WEAVING 81 smaller rounded octagon at the centre of the diagonal lines con-necting them. On the large octagons, which are of dark blue crossedby narrow bands of sable brown, is represented the…
Rugs, Oriental
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