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 264
to the number of the palmettes, and sometimes theeffect is exceedingly rich and elaborate. Speaking generally,there is no ornament which prevails so universally and in suchvaried forms and systems on Greek vases, but to give anexhaustive account of all its uses would be far beyond thelimits of this… … FIG. 168. PALMETTE UNDER HANDLES (SOUTH ITALIAN VASE). from any particular plant. It may be said to have two distinctforms, the star and the disc,1 the former consisting of anindefinite number of radiating arms or leaves, the latter of asimple disc surrounded by a row of dots. In both forms itis…
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