Primitive art in Egypt
Primitive art in Egypt, a 1905 London study by Jean Capart, translated by Agnes Johns, collecting prehistoric Egyptian objects for scholars and collectors of early art. Its plates show carved and engraved pieces: a decorated pot-like vessel with incised figures, small carved stone animal and figure forms, relief-carved curved panels with animals in procession, and bone or ivory tools with geometric banding. A designer might take the simple linework and repeated motifs of animals and zigzag or cross-hatched bands as source material for pattern and border work.
