298 COUNTERCHANGING ELEMENTS radiating from a centre, each interlocking into the others in such a way as to completely cover the surface decorated. Fig. 346 gives a greatly simplified example of this pattern ; and in Figs. 347 and 348 we see aberrant forms, not strictly designed, but following the… … FIG. 349. preserved in Regensburg Cathedral, and the second example, a hexagonal rosette, alternates with a six-pointed star-shaped figure on an inlaid marble pavement in Cairo. Rosettes, of Oriental appear- ance, which may very well be degenerate forms of the same type of composition, are found…
Decoration and ornament
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