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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 155

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Fig. 56. … Fi g. ■><■ STUDIES IN THE decorative ART OF JAPAN. \21 This square ornament must have had a peculiar fascination for the Greeks,for we are perpetually coming across it; and it was developed in a peculiarlygrotesque fashion, two, and sometimes three, of the sides being prolonged intoungainly…

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