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perceptible in the very elegant pendant, perhaps of a necklace, shown
in Fig. 44.
Some of the flowers, however, modelled in relief, reproduce rather the
native crocus or saffron, so dear to Minoan art. Still more remarkable is
the naturalistic stem of a tree or plant, the surface coloured brown
executed in relief, and leaves and flowers, apparently belonging to it, in the
Fio. 45.—Flowers, Foliage, and Fruit in Faience (c. f).
round, both repeating the same tints, a pale blue or bluish-green ground
colour with purplish veins1 (see Fig. 45). The fruit with a groove in its side,
coloured above a pale brown, also shown in Fig. 45, appears to be a plum.
The marine subjects reproduced are also strikingly naturalistic. They
were found scattered, but the analogies offered by parallel scenes suggest
1 The calix of the flower as seen in profile is bell-shaped, patulous at the upper margin : height
4 centimetres.
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perceptible in the very elegant pendant, perhaps of a necklace, shown
in Fig. 44.
Some of the flowers, however, modelled in relief, reproduce rather the
native crocus or saffron, so dear to Minoan art. Still more remarkable is
the naturalistic stem of a tree or plant, the surface coloured brown
executed in relief, and leaves and flowers, apparently belonging to it, in the
Fio. 45.—Flowers, Foliage, and Fruit in Faience (c. f).
round, both repeating the same tints, a pale blue or bluish-green ground
colour with purplish veins1 (see Fig. 45). The fruit with a groove in its side,
coloured above a pale brown, also shown in Fig. 45, appears to be a plum.
The marine subjects reproduced are also strikingly naturalistic. They
were found scattered, but the analogies offered by parallel scenes suggest
1 The calix of the flower as seen in profile is bell-shaped, patulous at the upper margin : height
4 centimetres.