tain family likeness to more pronounced types that one recognises the traditional design which once, at least, meant something. But what ? Does it stand for a fir-cone, or for a pine-apple, or for a pomegranate ? Each of these fruits seems in turn to have influenced it. Traced back to its beginning… … something, what the meaning is. Take, for example, the No. 6. — Thirteenth-Century Oriental Silk. device which occurs again and again in Byzantine stuffs of a man struggling with a lion. Is it Hercules wrestling form makes excellent ornament — so pregnant of mean¬ with the Nemean lion, or Samson,…
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