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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 130

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markable and probably, to my readers, unexpected appearance of what theyknow as the Greek key plainer. In due course I shall explain how it wasthat this tansverse section of the diaper came to be taken for the production ofthe key -border. I next treat the first of the elementary diapers, fig. 5,… … Pursuing the idea of taking a transverse section of the diapers, we find thatfig. 15 so treated produces the same double key, (fig. 25), with the addition of a central limb. 102 STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN

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