TYPICAL FORMS OF ORNAMENT 57 antiquity and of the middle ages, and it has not yet disappeared from those of our own time. Upon many ancient stuffs, carvings, and paintings IX. of European and Oriental workmanship we find a The … FIG. 41. singular piece of composition. A pair of animals, tree and varying in different examples, are placed one on its atten" either side of a more or less conventional represen- ^f. tation of a tree. These animals occur in a variety of attitudes, walking, standing erect, turning towards or
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