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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 68

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e there are two largeincense-burners eight feet high, and wonderfully wrought withbeautiful decorative and symbolical forms. But the indifference of the Japanese to their ancient relicsis paralleled by that which prevailed iu the cathedral at Bois-le-Due, Holland, a few years ago, and led to the… … MARBLE CANTORIA. BY BACCIO daGXOLO. marked 1G28, and consists of the finest colored marbles and manyperfectly sculptured statues—and substituted for it a conventionalGothic structure. This great rood-loft—it covers one whole wall,sixty feet in Avidth, and is from thirty to forty feet…

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