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 306 A HISTORY OF ART ix CHALD.EA AND ASSYRIA. frieze the cones and flowers are disjointed ; their isolation is unsatisfactory both to the eye and the reason. In the Assyrian FIG. 134. Painted border ; from Thebes, after Prisse. pattern they are attached to a continuous undulating stem whose sinuous lines add greatly to the elegance of the composition. The distinctive characters of the bud and flower are also very FIG. 135. Fragment of a threshold ; from Khorsabad. Louvre. Drawn by Bourgoin. well marked by the Assyrian artists. The closed petals of the one the open ones of the other and the divisions of the calix are