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M. M. Ill: SURVIVALS OF CERAMIC POLYCHROMY 597
The surface is rough, the lustre of the glaze medium hardly perceptible, and Con-
1 1 1 11 i- i glomerate
the colours broadly applied. and
The jug to the right of the Plate is decorated with a symmetrical imita- Breccia-
tion of conglomerate, in which the pebbles are reduced to round disks,
some of them washed with ochreous red, while the intermediate veins are
dotted with white clashes on the brown ground. This imitation of
stonework recalls what has been already said as to the early M. M. Ill
class of ' dotted vessels ', derived in that case from inlaid stone bowls.1 An
interesting parallel to this jug is supplied by a small jar from Gournia,
given here in Fig. 438, also representing a polychrome tradition in which
conglomerate stone-work is reproduced in a still more literal manner. The
black rounded pebbles with their white striations are here surrounded by
orange margins.2
The handled cup on Plate VII is from Palaikastro, but is given here
as another good example of late polychromy in connexion with rock-work
graining. It is of a typical M. M. Ill b shape and shows both red and white
decoration on the dark ground. The granulated pattern on an irregular
border seen here above the bands is of special significance, since it is taken
from a fuller design of a purely pictorial class. It represents, in fact, a part
of the rocky foreground such as appears in wall-paintings like the Saffron
Gatherer or Fish Fresco, and which finds an analogy in the undulating lower
zone of the Dolphin jar illustrated below (Fig. 447 The granulations,
by a curious convention, may be taken to indicate the rock itself in
section.
A further specimen of Granulated rock-work in the M. M. Ill poly- Po'y-
chrome
chrome style is afforded by the interior of a remarkable flat-bottomed basin Basin.
(Fig. 439), of which the larger part was preserved, found immediately North
of the Palace at Knossos. The ground here agrees with the earlier Middle
Minoan tradition in its blackish glaze; the foliate coils and clotted decoration
are creamy white, as is the inner veining. The broader veins, however, which
separate what are evidently intended for the pebbles of an original surface
of cut breccia are of a bright orange red.
1 See above, p. 413, and Fig. 298.
2 Boyd Hawes, Gournia, PI. IX, Fig. 23, and
p. 44. The jar, which is 27-3 cm. high, was
found in a cellar with two cups of late M. M. Ill
character with white decoration on a dark
ground. In the same cellar were also found
three L. M. I a vessels, but the group with the
dark ground clearly stand in another context.
The ridged base of Fig. 438 is of early tradition,
and recalls some Pachyammos jars described
by Seager as 'Transitional Style M. M. Ill—
L. M. I Periods' (e. g. Pachyammos, PI. X).
For the M. M. I tradition compare op. cit.,
PI. I (r-a).
The surface is rough, the lustre of the glaze medium hardly perceptible, and Con-
1 1 1 11 i- i glomerate
the colours broadly applied. and
The jug to the right of the Plate is decorated with a symmetrical imita- Breccia-
tion of conglomerate, in which the pebbles are reduced to round disks,
some of them washed with ochreous red, while the intermediate veins are
dotted with white clashes on the brown ground. This imitation of
stonework recalls what has been already said as to the early M. M. Ill
class of ' dotted vessels ', derived in that case from inlaid stone bowls.1 An
interesting parallel to this jug is supplied by a small jar from Gournia,
given here in Fig. 438, also representing a polychrome tradition in which
conglomerate stone-work is reproduced in a still more literal manner. The
black rounded pebbles with their white striations are here surrounded by
orange margins.2
The handled cup on Plate VII is from Palaikastro, but is given here
as another good example of late polychromy in connexion with rock-work
graining. It is of a typical M. M. Ill b shape and shows both red and white
decoration on the dark ground. The granulated pattern on an irregular
border seen here above the bands is of special significance, since it is taken
from a fuller design of a purely pictorial class. It represents, in fact, a part
of the rocky foreground such as appears in wall-paintings like the Saffron
Gatherer or Fish Fresco, and which finds an analogy in the undulating lower
zone of the Dolphin jar illustrated below (Fig. 447 The granulations,
by a curious convention, may be taken to indicate the rock itself in
section.
A further specimen of Granulated rock-work in the M. M. Ill poly- Po'y-
chrome
chrome style is afforded by the interior of a remarkable flat-bottomed basin Basin.
(Fig. 439), of which the larger part was preserved, found immediately North
of the Palace at Knossos. The ground here agrees with the earlier Middle
Minoan tradition in its blackish glaze; the foliate coils and clotted decoration
are creamy white, as is the inner veining. The broader veins, however, which
separate what are evidently intended for the pebbles of an original surface
of cut breccia are of a bright orange red.
1 See above, p. 413, and Fig. 298.
2 Boyd Hawes, Gournia, PI. IX, Fig. 23, and
p. 44. The jar, which is 27-3 cm. high, was
found in a cellar with two cups of late M. M. Ill
character with white decoration on a dark
ground. In the same cellar were also found
three L. M. I a vessels, but the group with the
dark ground clearly stand in another context.
The ridged base of Fig. 438 is of early tradition,
and recalls some Pachyammos jars described
by Seager as 'Transitional Style M. M. Ill—
L. M. I Periods' (e. g. Pachyammos, PI. X).
For the M. M. I tradition compare op. cit.,
PI. I (r-a).