History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Based on the work of Samuel Birch (1905)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp), 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 250
ing on the wheel, first in its natural position and then on its side. Artistically, of course, the principle is a wrong one, and this is most glaringly conspicuous in the barrel-shaped lekythi, in which the axis of the vase is regarded as horizontal rather than vertical. Groups of small concentric… … which, as we have seen (Vol. I. p. 302), owes much to that source — the Melian amphorae. Systems of spirals are arranged to fill the spaces at the sides of the design,1 especially in com¬ bination with floral ornaments and reticulated lozenges ; and the same feature may also be observed in the…
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