Suggestions in design : being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts (1880)
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Colling, James Kellaway · London : Blackie and Son · leaf 70
zigzags, and other simple forms. Among other figures Dr Schliemann found the Trojan terra cottas1 covered with a species of cross which he calls a “ suastika ” (see Fig 55). The drapery are drawn with a black or brown suastika in more perfect vases of the early line. The earliest class, that is,… … tion took place recent of them are elaborately decorated with that highly aesthetic skill for which j in the style of enrichment and also in the forms of the vases. The later produc- Greek workmanship is so justly valued. tions were more covered with figures and These vases may be roughly divided…
Decoration and ornament
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