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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 129

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or wine (Fig. 128, e, g); thewnochoc, a large-bodiedwine-vessel;thelujdria (i,l),a wide-mouthed water-jar;the lekythos (b), a smallslender-necked vase for per-fumes or for votive andfunereal uses; the somewhatsimilar alahastron, usuallyof alabaster (d) \ the krater(/) ; a cup or jar with aspreading… … Fig. 1;?9. Geometric Vase, Se\ties. 102 GREEK ORNAMENT, I Development of Motives. In an important group of early archaic vases the deco-ration consists of successive bands alternately of orna-ment and pictures (e.g., the Dodwell vase, a in Fig.128). Another group, in the so-called geometricstyle,*…

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