Gold leaf glows between inked interlace, where stylized birds and beasts coil into tight medallions. The grid’s precision suggests a cosmology—each circle a world in miniature.

What creature hides in the corner knotwork, half-erased by time?
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https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.64