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CHAPTER I
THE SOURCES OE DECORATION
T N dealing with the subject of decorative
art in Egypt, it is needful to begin by
setting some bounds to a study which might
be made to embrace almost every example of
ancient work known to us in that land. The
Egyptian treatment of everything great and
small was so strongly decorative that it is
hard to exclude an overwhelming variety of
considerations. But here it is proposed to
limit our view to the historical development
of the various motives or elements of deco-
ration. The larger questions of the aesthetic
scheme of design, of the meaning of orna-
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THE SOURCES OE DECORATION
T N dealing with the subject of decorative
art in Egypt, it is needful to begin by
setting some bounds to a study which might
be made to embrace almost every example of
ancient work known to us in that land. The
Egyptian treatment of everything great and
small was so strongly decorative that it is
hard to exclude an overwhelming variety of
considerations. But here it is proposed to
limit our view to the historical development
of the various motives or elements of deco-
ration. The larger questions of the aesthetic
scheme of design, of the meaning of orna-
2