History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · London, J. Murray · leaf 258
on-ventional. It is thus found on theMelian amphorae in combination withsystems of spirals 3 ; though on theshoulder of the example given by Rieglthere occurs a band of lotos-flowers alternately upright andinverted, linked together by scrolls, where the form is almost 1 See Riegl, p. 115 ff., and… … FIG. 159. LOTOS-FLOWERON CYPRIOTE VASE. THE LOTOS-FLOWER 225 that of Egyptian art, except that the cup of the flower isrounder, the petals shorter and blunter. It is obviously as yet Next we meet with it in the vases in the transitional stage.
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