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 261
G. 165. PALMETTE PATTERN ON NECK OF KED-BODIED AMPHORAE. ornaments, and attention is devoted to the palmette alone. The method of its application to the kylikes as a handle-ornament, linked thereto by a scroll, has already been treated in detail (Vol. I. p. 413); it first appears on the Cyrenaic… … FIG. 166. ENCLOSED PALMETTES (R.F. PERIOD). form to which it adheres down to the end of the sixth century ; but now assumes a more flexible and graceful form, being encircled and linked to its fellows by means of slender scrolls or tendrils, which thus form a series of elliptical or oval forms
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