TYPICAL FORMS OF ORNAMENT 55 centre of a stone panel. Another variation of the same idea may be traced in Fig. 38, a little design in a collection of drawings formed by Mirza Akber, ar- chitect to the Shah of Persia, in the early part of the nineteenth century, now in the Victoria and Albert… … FIG. 39. collection, and Figs. 40 and 41 show the unit repeated six times, in simple line and with the intermediate spaces coloured, as in the examples shown in Fig. 36. In this series we have followed out some develop- Orna_ ments of two insignificant- looking geometrical devices ment which have a…
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