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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 410949, member: 5833"]I think you have to see the hooves as their own design/structural element, separate from the creatures that form the handles. One of the standard bases for lamps made from carved helmet shells has sirens at the top but feet that often look like goat hooves. Wasn't able to find a really good example, but this is the idea:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]143127[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The legs and hooves have nothing to do with the sirens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 410949, member: 5833"]I think you have to see the hooves as their own design/structural element, separate from the creatures that form the handles. One of the standard bases for lamps made from carved helmet shells has sirens at the top but feet that often look like goat hooves. Wasn't able to find a really good example, but this is the idea: [ATTACH=full]143127[/ATTACH] The legs and hooves have nothing to do with the sirens.[/QUOTE]
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