OF FORMED OF FLORAL ELEMENTS 101 | printing block. It is almost invariably richly decorated. We often find very beautiful elements of undoubted tree form thrown into this shape, like that in Fig. 96, from another cotton-printing block. Sometimes little birds are represented perching upon the boughs… … resembling those Indian lamp-bearing trees of brass which have birds of similar form, evidently peacocks, sitting upon their boughs. The golden trees which stood in the palace of the Emperor at Constantinople, with perching birds, which upon state occasions were
Decoration and ornament
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