The decorative art of Crete in the bronze age .. (1907)
Dohan, Edith Hall, 1877-1943 · Philadelphia, Press of the J. C. Winston co. · leaf 11
o natural objects. Fig. 7 a, b, c. d look like leaves. They are the counterparts of patterns which appear again in the second division of the middle period.^ In Fig. 7 c appears a pattern which, were it from a later period, would be called a conventionalized flower or leaf.^ The artist’s task was… … h c Fig. 8, from Transactions I, Pa't III, Pis. XXVIII, XXX and XXXII. the elongated dots of Fig. 7 b give the effect of leaves springing alternately from a stalk, merely because they are tipped on end. Are these designs naturalistic? It seems improbable that the decorators of these vases ever…
Pottery · Decoration and ornament
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