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Travels in South Kensington, with notes on Decorative art and architecture in England (1882)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · London : Trübner & co. · leaf 132

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ting them into baskets; in each picture a different treeand fruit. On one side of the main stairway is the ligure of aboy stealing up to a birds nest, over which a bird hoveis; oppo-site, the boy has the nest, the bird flies away. This device isnot immoral; it means that plovers eggs are on the… … MINTON TILES BOll MANTEL. white majolica, although greater simplicity in the designs thanhuman faces festooned with flowers would, I suspect, have been 9 130 DECORATIVE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND. better. 1 must not omit to mention tliat the cornice inside thegrand liall, at the top of the…

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