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 Decoration. 527 rosette (Fig. 230), divided as it is into the segments of a circle, is still dependent on geometric forms for its being ; but how- ever great may have been the artist's partiality for curvilinear Fig. 134. — Decoraiioii of bee-bive loinb. shapes, which he traced out with a surety of hand scarcely to be exceeded by the compass, he ere long succumbed to the tempta- tion of imitating the flowers he saw around him. Some, above