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The decorative periods . /^ ^^ m ^^P. GOTHIC WITH INFLUENCE 114 The Decorative Periods secular uses. In the beginning, however, after the fall of theByzantine Empire, and during the period when the arts languishedand vandalism and destruction ran riot, there was little call fordecorative work, and labor was confined to the simply con-structural ; it was at this time that the character of the furnitureand furnishings was of that type which we now recognize as theArts and Crafts or Mission. 1^ ^it2i^==:^Pf^^ f^§ ^—•—n^^^^ sfe^y r^fiat itfS/ F^ ?^=^^—JB— m ~*—* » m^ 9k ^u ?-—^J|P§L^K^HIt^-i r&^ b^ ^ Ml r^, LATE FRENCH GOTHIC SHIELD, CARTOUCHE AND STRAP INDECORATION THE history of decoration is a history simply of the life of all things there are turning points or criseswhich mark with some degree of distinctiveness the period ofdevelopment. It is the same in the life of r^\=»/A5 (;>v decoration as in the life of a nation or an ^^^ individual. This chapter has to do w

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