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It must be remembered that the material, walnut wood, has been cut with sharp tools, and that little has been left for files or sand paper, that the cleanness and decision of the work must be looked at in order fairly to estimate the inimitable skill of the carvers. The figures of Spring and Summer are recumbent and occupy the (pace lengthwise. Smaller standing figures on a reduced scale (to stand in the same panel) hold cornucopiae, one of flowers and the other of wheatears. As in the two  following numbers the carving and decoration are cut out of a large  block or slab of walnut wood, not out of a piece framed in a panel in  the usual way. 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