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Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)

Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 224

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Plate 121. MAHOMETAN ORNAMENT. 213 … 214 MAHOMETAN ORNAMENT. Saracenic Ornament. The Saracens, who originally came from Northern Arabia, like the Moors of Hamiticorigin, were both for a long time the chief standard bearers of Islam art. When Sicily wasconquered by the Normans, the Saracens placed their art at the disposal of the…

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