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Salaminia (Cyprus) : the history, treasures, & antiquities of Salamis in the island of Cyprus (1882)

Cesnola, Alexander Palma di, 1837-, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : Trübner and Co. · leaf 268

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3 with an ample roLe, arranged in elegant folds, fallino-down behind and at her side. The flowers and foliage inthis case also are mostly freely treated, and it is evidentthat both the vase and the plate of glass are worksof artists of the first class. The high standard to whichthe decorative arts… … Fig. 150. Painted Lid—Venus. Glass. styles which the ancient Cypriotes adorned, when ex-amples so beautiful as those at present before us, althoughthey are but few in comparison to the hundreds whichmust have paid the penalty of their fragility, have sur-vived to point to the refined civilisation…

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