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Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)

Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 107

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most invariably geo¬ metrical in character, and generally so minute that its beauties are only done justice to by inspection through a magnifying glass. It abounds with the most contorted renderings of animals and birds, having tails so intertwined and knotted as to require some patience to trace… … Fig. 24. — Celtic. Interlacement of Lines. it conveys the idea, but is singular among so many tortuous combinations for its extreme simplicity. Chinese. — The attention which has of late been directed to the art workmanship of the Chinese renders their pecu¬ liarities of style tolerably familiar to…

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