The decorative art of Crete in the bronze age .. (1907)
Dohan, Edith Hall, 1877-1943 · Philadelphia, Press of the J. C. Winston co. · leaf 29
of Cretan marine designs has recently been published by Mr. Bosanquet {J. H. S. 1904, XXIV, pp. 320-322). It remains here merely to state the fact of the appearance of this class of vases in this period and to point out, for the sake of comparison with later convention- alized marine motives, the… … Fig. 39, from B. S. A. 1902-3, X, p. 28.5, Fig. 5. are generally regarded as fronds of algae. But the artist’s desire is not so much to represent sea life as to arrange graceful and harmonious combina- tions of lines, as may be seen by the insertion of the stop-gap ornament below the spout. The…
Pottery · Decoration and ornament
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