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Period decoration (1901)

Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 25

An illustration from Period decoration, 1901, leaf 25
distinguishing features consist of hieroglyphics, nude humanfigures, winged globes, the ram, the sparrow hawk, dung-beetle,symbolic animals and foliage, especially that of the palm andlotus, the latter as a symbol of fecundity and life; for the lotus was the firstflower to spring up after the…

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