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 258
THE LOTOS-FLOWER 225 that of Egyptian art, except that the cup of the flower is rounder, the petals shorter and blunter. It is obviously as yet in the transitional stage. Next we meet with it in the vases … FIG. 160. LOTOS-FLOWERS AND BUDS (RHODIAN). of Ionia, especially in those of the so-called Rhodian and eailier Naukratite styles, which have friezes of lotos-flowers alternating with closed buds or with palmettes, connected by tendrils (Fig. 160). A similar pattern, on an exceptionally large scale…
Pottery, Greek · Pottery, Etruscan · Mythology, Classical, in art · Pottery, Ancient
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