'Bouquet capital', Thebes, Egypt, (1928). 'Painting from a private tomb of the 18th Dynasty, (1555-1350 B. C.). So-called bouquet capitals (papyrus clusters, lilies, nymphaea) as depicted on wall paintings and made of wood'. After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate V, fig 13, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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