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Traditional methods of pattern designing; an introduction to the study of the decorative art (1910)

Christie, Archibald H · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 173

An illustration from Traditional methods of pattern designing; an introduction to the study of the decorative art, 1910, leaf 173 — 1 70 GEOMETRICAL AND FLORAL WORK a similar flower-and-bud border edging an eight- pointed star. Fig. 177, which is powdered in gold over a purple silk of the same period and make, is a disk bordered with a degenerate palmette border. A … FIG. 178. FIG. 179. later piece of ornament (Fig. 1 78), from an enamelled glass lamp from Cairo, shows the border alone, the central disk being reduced to a mere spot of colour. Our final example (Fig. 179) gives a leaf form decorated with an adaptation of this rosette.

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