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Page 204
... art concerned with the production of luxurious and richly decorated objects meant for daily use . Objects that can be clearly designated as works of decorative art become much more extensive for the later periods , during which Islamic ...
... art concerned with the production of luxurious and richly decorated objects meant for daily use . Objects that can be clearly designated as works of decorative art become much more extensive for the later periods , during which Islamic ...
Page 208
... Arts ( General works ) : VINCENT A. SMITH , A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon , 3rd ed . rev . and enl ... Decorative Arts : Scholarly literature on the decorative arts in India is scanty and mainly in learned journals . The ...
... Arts ( General works ) : VINCENT A. SMITH , A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon , 3rd ed . rev . and enl ... Decorative Arts : Scholarly literature on the decorative arts in India is scanty and mainly in learned journals . The ...
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... decorative arts , particularly in the curvilinear and flam- boyant inflection given to ornamental motives in the major Indianizing styles . The link between the two styles is probably the ubiqui- tous squatting ancestor figure , cocked ...
... decorative arts , particularly in the curvilinear and flam- boyant inflection given to ornamental motives in the major Indianizing styles . The link between the two styles is probably the ubiqui- tous squatting ancestor figure , cocked ...
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