Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 198
aborate, it has a new element inthe shape of some kind of water bird arranged Assyrian- PHCENIC/AN ART. 77 like on each side of the sacred tree, and has a sun signfilling up a space close to one of the birds legs (Fig. 238).Another very interesting and beautiful vase is the(Enochoe (Fig. 239).… … Fig. 236.—Vessel in the Shape of a Goat. (P. Sc C.i fylfot, or swastika, repeated four times. These sacredsigns are often found on Cyprian pottery. The latter vasein shape and decoration is more Greek in feeling thanmost Cyprian vases. The larger CEnochoe (Fig. 240) hasthe human figure with some…
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