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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Egg-shell
Ware
Cups.
Influence
of Metal
Types.
inner petals white, and the outer leaves of the corolla are outlined against a
bright red background. The Double Axe motive—parti-coloured, white and
scarlet—-is repeated in the elaborate frieze round the upper border.
A group of three cups from this Deposit is given in Coloured Plate II.
Admirable in the harmony of its design and hues is No. 1, on which coiled
shell-like sprays, creamy white and crimson-veined, are linked with rosettes,
reserved in the lustrous black ground. A similar colour effect recurs in 2 of
the same Plate, while 3 is specially distinguished by its rich metallic sheen.
This last feature is in harmony with the growing influence of metal
types, especially of silver, on ceramic forms, already noted under the M. M. I
Period.1 Among the remains of vases of the ' egg-shell' class some present
Fig. 182. a, b. Stamped Ware, with Metallic Lustre: Royal PotteryJ Stores,
Knossos. (§). c. Hieroglyphic Cachet of Fabric, Palaikastro.
Imita- a lustre hardly distinguishable from that of old plate, and on such examples
Siher°f Pamted decoration is often replaced by stamped or embossed patterns such as
Vessels, might well have been impressed on thin plates of metal (Fig. 182, a, b).
Two cup-handles of plain examples of this ware from Palaikastro actually
present the potter's cachet in hieroglyphic characters (Fig. 182, c)} Such
fabrics curiously recall the metallic forms and lustre of the class of Italo-
Greek tazzas and other vessels which reproduce the silver plate in vogue
at the Court of Dionysios of Syracuse, and which often exhibit in their
bowls actual casts of his magnificent ' medallions '. with the signature, still
discernible, of the great engraver Euainetos.3
Imitations in clay of crinkled silver vessels of the M. M. I Period have
been given above (Fig. 139, p. 192), and a good instance of similar metallic
1 See above, p. 191. For metallic imitations mission, in Scripta Minoa, i, p. 157, P. 43.
from Phaestos see Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, 3 See my Syracnsan Medallions and their
1902, pp. 113, 114. Engravers, p. 113 seqq.
2 Published, with the Excavators' kind per-
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Egg-shell
Ware
Cups.
Influence
of Metal
Types.
inner petals white, and the outer leaves of the corolla are outlined against a
bright red background. The Double Axe motive—parti-coloured, white and
scarlet—-is repeated in the elaborate frieze round the upper border.
A group of three cups from this Deposit is given in Coloured Plate II.
Admirable in the harmony of its design and hues is No. 1, on which coiled
shell-like sprays, creamy white and crimson-veined, are linked with rosettes,
reserved in the lustrous black ground. A similar colour effect recurs in 2 of
the same Plate, while 3 is specially distinguished by its rich metallic sheen.
This last feature is in harmony with the growing influence of metal
types, especially of silver, on ceramic forms, already noted under the M. M. I
Period.1 Among the remains of vases of the ' egg-shell' class some present
Fig. 182. a, b. Stamped Ware, with Metallic Lustre: Royal PotteryJ Stores,
Knossos. (§). c. Hieroglyphic Cachet of Fabric, Palaikastro.
Imita- a lustre hardly distinguishable from that of old plate, and on such examples
Siher°f Pamted decoration is often replaced by stamped or embossed patterns such as
Vessels, might well have been impressed on thin plates of metal (Fig. 182, a, b).
Two cup-handles of plain examples of this ware from Palaikastro actually
present the potter's cachet in hieroglyphic characters (Fig. 182, c)} Such
fabrics curiously recall the metallic forms and lustre of the class of Italo-
Greek tazzas and other vessels which reproduce the silver plate in vogue
at the Court of Dionysios of Syracuse, and which often exhibit in their
bowls actual casts of his magnificent ' medallions '. with the signature, still
discernible, of the great engraver Euainetos.3
Imitations in clay of crinkled silver vessels of the M. M. I Period have
been given above (Fig. 139, p. 192), and a good instance of similar metallic
1 See above, p. 191. For metallic imitations mission, in Scripta Minoa, i, p. 157, P. 43.
from Phaestos see Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, 3 See my Syracnsan Medallions and their
1902, pp. 113, 114. Engravers, p. 113 seqq.
2 Published, with the Excavators' kind per-