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Description:
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Japanese textile |
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Date of Artwork:
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17th or 18th century |
Notes: This design is a version of the semiregular tessellation 4.8.8. Notice the brick-like tessellations within the regular octagons (an examples of the offset polygon technique), as well as the tessellations of diamonds also within the regular octagons.
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Book:
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Racinet, Auguste. Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament: All 120 Plates from "L'Ornement Polychrome," Series II. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989. |
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Location:
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Plate 13 |
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