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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 126

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hemoment I cannot assume it, as if these bars or borders stand in the same relationto crooks or half elements as tlie central stem (fig. KVy) does to the wholeelement from which the diapers are constructed. This remains to beproved. I have proceeded in ray argument so cautiously up to the present-,… … Fig. 28. 104 STUDIES /.V THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN This is actually aiiKJiig the key -borders given hyOwen Jones (pi. XV, No. 17), and is said to have come fromthe coffeis of the ceiling of the Piopyhea at Athens. Thelearned author describes it as two keys ]ilaced one abovethe otlier, running in…

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