Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 261
most beautiful form of Mycenianpottery is the Marseilles vase or ewer, in the Borely collec-tion (Fig. 290). The decoration is a brown-black on a light ground, and 240 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. consists of the argonaut shellfish and seaweed. It islikely to have been a copy from a metal object owing toits… … Fig. 296.—Gold Cup, Troy. (P. & C.) lithographs in ]\Iessrs. Perrot and Chipiezs Art inPrimitive Greece of bronze Mycenian daggers inlaidwith gold and electrum of various shades: one has therepresentation of panthers hunting birds on a river-bank—the river is stocked with fish ; another has a…
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