244 BORDERS AND CRESTINGS Fig. 272, an outline drawing from the Mirza Akber collection. Its relationship to the type is brought out more clearly in the next illustration (Fig. 273), where the two sides of the design are differently coloured. Fig. 274, traced from a reproduction of an Oriental tile,… … FIG. 272. FIG. 273. type, probably of Syrian workmanship. We find stone crestings of very much the same design sur- mounting the parapets of Venetian palaces and the type occurs also in the inlaid marble decoration of the interior of the Cathedral of Monreale, although in these instances the…
Decoration and ornament
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