anipulation, the work is clean and crisp enoughfor all decorative purposes—the more especially as it was l88 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. intended to be coloured. It is interesting to compare it withthe kindred Persian work on page 187, deep cut, apparently, inclay, and glazed with vitreous… … 179. KNIFEWORK. practice, illustrated in the Icelandic box above. The foldedleafage in the heart of the spiral is here ingeniously made totake the place of background : and how cleverly the design iscontrived to leave as little ground as possible, so that byfar the greater proportion of the flat…
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