. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . nt nor jarring. The most brilliantcolours were placed alongside each other with extreme audacity, but with aperfect knowledge of their mutual relations and combined effect. They do notjar with, or exaggerate, or kill each other : they enhance each others value,and by their contact give rise to half-shades which harmonize with sepulchral chapels, in cases where their decoration had been completed,and where they have reached us intact, appear to us as chambers hung withbeautifully luminous and interesting tapestry, in which rest ought to
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . nt nor jarring. The most brilliantcolours were placed alongside each other with extreme audacity, but with aperfect knowledge of their mutual relations and combined effect. They do notjar with, or exaggerate, or kill each other : they enhance each others value,and by their contact give rise to half-shades which harmonize with sepulchral chapels, in cases where their decoration had been completed,and where they have reached us intact, appear to us as chambers hung withbeautifully luminous and interesting tapestry, in which rest ought to bepleasant during the heat of the day to the soul which dwells within them,and to the friends who come there to hold intercourse with the dead. The decoration of palaces and houses was not less sumptuous than that ofthe sepulchres, but it has been so completely destroyed that we should find itdifficult to form an idea of the furniture of the living if we did not see itfrequently depicted in the abode of the double. The great armchairs, folding. BAS-RELIEF ON 1 Pekeot-Chipiez, Histoire de lArt dam lAntiquité, vol. i. p. 741, et seq. ; Maspero, LArchéologieÉgyptienne, pp. 168-172 ; Erman, JEgypten und das JEgyptische Lében im Alterlum, p. 530, et seq. 2 Drawn by Bouclier, from a photograph by Bouriant. The original is in private possession. 3 Perrot-Chipiez, Histoire de lArt, vol. i. pp. 781-792; Maspero, LArchéologie Égyptienne,pp. 197-199. INDUSTRIAL ART. 413 seats, footstools, and beds of carved wood, painted and inlaid, the vases of hardstone, metal, or enamelled ware,the necklaces, bracelets, andornaments on the walls, eventhe common pottery of which wefind the remains in the neigh-bourhood of the pyramids, aregenerally distinguished by anelegance and grace reflectingcredit on the workmanship andtaste of the Thesquares of ivory which they ap-plied to their linen-chests andtheir iewel-cases often containedactual bas-reliefs in miniatureof as bold workm
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