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... carved and painted to distinguish one ship from another , and at least one class of vessel used an identifying symbol : a falcon or a falcon's eye generally appeared on the bows of funeral barges of the Nile . Although the oculi were ...
... carved and painted to distinguish one ship from another , and at least one class of vessel used an identifying symbol : a falcon or a falcon's eye generally appeared on the bows of funeral barges of the Nile . Although the oculi were ...
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... carving , the lightly carved ornamen- tation on furniture made by the Pennsylvania Germans , whose emigration from Hanoverian Friesland to colonial America began in the 17th century . Coming from one of the richest folk cultures in ...
... carving , the lightly carved ornamen- tation on furniture made by the Pennsylvania Germans , whose emigration from Hanoverian Friesland to colonial America began in the 17th century . Coming from one of the richest folk cultures in ...
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... carved room that the 18th - century English virtuoso Horace Walpole declared his finest work . artificial floral decorations 7 : 414b interior design wood carving 9 : 717f Detail of ornamentation from the interior of Petworth House ...
... carved room that the 18th - century English virtuoso Horace Walpole declared his finest work . artificial floral decorations 7 : 414b interior design wood carving 9 : 717f Detail of ornamentation from the interior of Petworth House ...
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