The decorative art of Crete in the bronze age .. (1907)
Dohan, Edith Hall, 1877-1943 · Philadelphia, Press of the J. C. Winston co. · leaf 10
10 TRANSACTIOXS, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY, U. OF P. An im2:)()i’tant pattern which ajipears as a frequent^ motive in Early Minoaii III vases is the spiral. In Egypt spirals were painted on vases in jn-e- dynastie periods, but in Crete up to the time of the Vth and Vlth dynasties paint was not… … Fig. 7, from Transactions I, Part III, Pis. XXVII, XXVIII, XXX and XXXII. stones alone, the signs of individual possession and authority, did the toil of cutting out a curved pattern seem justified. pointing out the fact that such quirks were made by a single stroke of the brush, suggests that the…
Pottery · Decoration and ornament
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