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EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
favourite bird. On the great pavements
of Akhenaten it appears above every group
of plants.
On rinses it is often engraved
fluttering above its nest; and in
the decadence of Egyptian art
in the XXth dynasty the incon-
gruous idea was adopted of
birds, eggs, and nests all upon
Tiie natural ceiling pattern adopted from
the early days of Egyptian art was of
golden stars on a deep blue
ground; not a dark daylight
Kg. 166. blue, as in modern imitations,
but a black night blue. These are always
five-pointed stars, with a circular spot,
usually of red, in the centre.
It is noticeable that the Egyptian views
EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
favourite bird. On the great pavements
of Akhenaten it appears above every group
of plants.
On rinses it is often engraved
fluttering above its nest; and in
the decadence of Egyptian art
in the XXth dynasty the incon-
gruous idea was adopted of
birds, eggs, and nests all upon
Tiie natural ceiling pattern adopted from
the early days of Egyptian art was of
golden stars on a deep blue
ground; not a dark daylight
Kg. 166. blue, as in modern imitations,
but a black night blue. These are always
five-pointed stars, with a circular spot,
usually of red, in the centre.
It is noticeable that the Egyptian views