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 33
Building a temple, from a mural painting found in a graveat Abd-el-Gurna (Liibke). BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN ORNAMENT. … long the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris,in the sacred land of Mesopotamia, andunder the special influence of these twostreams, a characteristic civilisation deve-loped itself more than 5000 years ago—much the same as the civilisation which wasdeveloped in Egypt under the influence ofthe Nile.…
Decoration and ornament
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