THE EVOLUTION OF PATTERN

symmetry is seen on the beautiful slate relief, B.C. 5500 (fig. 7),illustrated in The Arts and Crafts of Egypt, by Flinders Petrie;in the alabaster slabs of ancient Assyria (fig. 8); in the marblepavements of S. Miniato and the Baptistry Florence, of the 10thcentury, and in the beautiful 16th century Persian pottery (fig. 9)where it was doubtless used primarily for its significance, and forits beauty and harmony of arrangement.

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