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Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ne green and gold silkfabrics, with brown outlines, were produced from the Sixth to the Tenth Century ; and when the Crusades began to influencethe art, and in 1098 Antioch was taken, the spoils were distrib-uted throughout all Europe. It was the same in 1204, whenConstantinople was taken by the Count of Flanders and theVenetian Doge Dandola; the spoils were scattered throughoutthe western country and taken up and absorbed. It was un-doubtedly under the influence of the Crusades that the Sicilianweavers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries producedmany beautiful fabrics enriched with winged lions, foliated crossesand crowns, rayed stars, harts and birds with armorial bearings.Early in the Fourteenth Century this character of design wasintroduced into Italy, and at Lucca many beautiful fabrics wereproduced having the same technique and style as the Sicilianfabrics. The use of heraldic devices, particularly shields, becameconspicuous decorative details during the latter part of the
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