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The species will mark the more or less close adherence to the
forms of these capsules.
A Punic* bottle, in the British Museum, and of conical form, resem-
bling the capsule of the Nelumbium, but inverted, and with the addition of
a taper neck and cruet lip, as also the truncated conical form of certain
cups of heavy black ware, to be found in most collections, are strongly
characteristic of the first genus.
The ordinary bell-shaped vase also resembles, but more faintly, the
full grown, and somewhat flattened capsule of the Nelumbium; while
others of this kind, more cylindrical, may be compared to an enlarged
capsule of the same plant, after most of the petals have fallen off. These
are the vases which have handles at the bottom of the bowl, and just
above the stem.
The spheroidal form of the fruit of the Nymphgea Lotus may be disco-
vered in those vases of Campania, which are remarkable for having upright
ears, each formed of two stems connected at the top, and two pairs of
knobs on the shoulder of the vessel. These, I conceive, were suggested
by the petals, which are disposed, eight in a circle, round the bulb of the
capsulet, after it is enlarged, and when the summit, overtopt by the
shoulder, becomes buried within the bulb. In this instance, four of the
leafits may be supposed to remain erect, the other four to have fallen off,
leaving so many scars behind.
In the large Apulian vases, as they are termed, an allusion to the egg
has been superadded to that of the vegetable ; but the handles are de-
rived from the fertile petals, or stamina, incurved towards the lip of the
vase, or the summit of the capsule. Many varieties of what I term
* The purple-figured ware is usually termed Punic; but some of this class were
probably manufactured in very early times at or near Corinth, as Dodwell (Travels in
Greece, vol. ii. p. 196, 197.) bought one of this description, inscribed with Greek cha-
racters, in that neighbourhood.
f This particular disposition of the eight petals round the bulb has been very cu-
riously imitated upon three vases of heavy black ware in the British Museum, by four
mouldings resembling a pointed Gothic arch, in addition to the handles. See the
vignette, page 135. of this Appendix. One of these is engraved in the great work of
D'Hancarville, vol. iv. plate lxx.
The species will mark the more or less close adherence to the
forms of these capsules.
A Punic* bottle, in the British Museum, and of conical form, resem-
bling the capsule of the Nelumbium, but inverted, and with the addition of
a taper neck and cruet lip, as also the truncated conical form of certain
cups of heavy black ware, to be found in most collections, are strongly
characteristic of the first genus.
The ordinary bell-shaped vase also resembles, but more faintly, the
full grown, and somewhat flattened capsule of the Nelumbium; while
others of this kind, more cylindrical, may be compared to an enlarged
capsule of the same plant, after most of the petals have fallen off. These
are the vases which have handles at the bottom of the bowl, and just
above the stem.
The spheroidal form of the fruit of the Nymphgea Lotus may be disco-
vered in those vases of Campania, which are remarkable for having upright
ears, each formed of two stems connected at the top, and two pairs of
knobs on the shoulder of the vessel. These, I conceive, were suggested
by the petals, which are disposed, eight in a circle, round the bulb of the
capsulet, after it is enlarged, and when the summit, overtopt by the
shoulder, becomes buried within the bulb. In this instance, four of the
leafits may be supposed to remain erect, the other four to have fallen off,
leaving so many scars behind.
In the large Apulian vases, as they are termed, an allusion to the egg
has been superadded to that of the vegetable ; but the handles are de-
rived from the fertile petals, or stamina, incurved towards the lip of the
vase, or the summit of the capsule. Many varieties of what I term
* The purple-figured ware is usually termed Punic; but some of this class were
probably manufactured in very early times at or near Corinth, as Dodwell (Travels in
Greece, vol. ii. p. 196, 197.) bought one of this description, inscribed with Greek cha-
racters, in that neighbourhood.
f This particular disposition of the eight petals round the bulb has been very cu-
riously imitated upon three vases of heavy black ware in the British Museum, by four
mouldings resembling a pointed Gothic arch, in addition to the handles. See the
vignette, page 135. of this Appendix. One of these is engraved in the great work of
D'Hancarville, vol. iv. plate lxx.