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640 REDUPLICATED FOLIATE DECORATION ON POTTERY
Ceramic
copies of
foliate
edges in
L. M. II.
stem from which on either side ramifies the same embossed leaf ornament
(see Fig. 404). An exquisite decorative feature is the double repetition of
the outer edges of the leaves round the rim of the vessel, so that the whole
margin presents the appearance
of three superposed bands of
foliage. The section, Fig. 405,
shows the way in which it is folded
over.
This repetition—sometimes
greatly multiplied—of the foliate
edges was taken over on to the
painted decoration of a series of
clay vases belonging to the later
' Palace Style' of Knossos, which
thus betray their indebtedness to
the chased work of this earlier
metal class. Good examples of
this are supplied by a ' Stirrup
Vase' from a Shaft Grave (No.
68) at Zafer Papoura» (Fig. 406),
and by the upper part and
shoulders of a fine amphora with
' papyrus ' designs from the Royal
Tomb at Isopata.2 This reaction
on ceramic form and decora-
tion shows the important part
played by metal vases in the pj£ 6^8), zTfer Patotoa?
great days of the later Palace,
and affords a parallel to the evidence supplied by the ' egg-shell' ware,
with its fine metallic lustre and repousse ornament, as to the wealth of the
early Palace in vessels, not of bronze alone, but of silver and gold. In the
case of the bronze types we may suppose that the practice, otherwise exem-
plified, of coating them with a thin gold foil, as was done with the black
Fig. 406. Stirrup Vase showing Multiplica-
tion of Foliate Border, L. M. II Shaft Grave
1 Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 74,
Fig. 83, and pp. 121-3 with Fig. 115. Among
other metal characteristics of this vase may be
noted a knob, derived from the head of a stud,
on the side of the spout, and the small 8-
shaped shields seen in relief on the upper
surface, recalling those applied as rivet-heads
on the silver ' rhyton' from the Fourth Shaft
Grave at Mycenae. It is only from the re-
flection of metal technique on this vase that
we know that metal stirrup vases existed at
Knossos.
2 Op. cit., PL CI.
Ceramic
copies of
foliate
edges in
L. M. II.
stem from which on either side ramifies the same embossed leaf ornament
(see Fig. 404). An exquisite decorative feature is the double repetition of
the outer edges of the leaves round the rim of the vessel, so that the whole
margin presents the appearance
of three superposed bands of
foliage. The section, Fig. 405,
shows the way in which it is folded
over.
This repetition—sometimes
greatly multiplied—of the foliate
edges was taken over on to the
painted decoration of a series of
clay vases belonging to the later
' Palace Style' of Knossos, which
thus betray their indebtedness to
the chased work of this earlier
metal class. Good examples of
this are supplied by a ' Stirrup
Vase' from a Shaft Grave (No.
68) at Zafer Papoura» (Fig. 406),
and by the upper part and
shoulders of a fine amphora with
' papyrus ' designs from the Royal
Tomb at Isopata.2 This reaction
on ceramic form and decora-
tion shows the important part
played by metal vases in the pj£ 6^8), zTfer Patotoa?
great days of the later Palace,
and affords a parallel to the evidence supplied by the ' egg-shell' ware,
with its fine metallic lustre and repousse ornament, as to the wealth of the
early Palace in vessels, not of bronze alone, but of silver and gold. In the
case of the bronze types we may suppose that the practice, otherwise exem-
plified, of coating them with a thin gold foil, as was done with the black
Fig. 406. Stirrup Vase showing Multiplica-
tion of Foliate Border, L. M. II Shaft Grave
1 Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 74,
Fig. 83, and pp. 121-3 with Fig. 115. Among
other metal characteristics of this vase may be
noted a knob, derived from the head of a stud,
on the side of the spout, and the small 8-
shaped shields seen in relief on the upper
surface, recalling those applied as rivet-heads
on the silver ' rhyton' from the Fourth Shaft
Grave at Mycenae. It is only from the re-
flection of metal technique on this vase that
we know that metal stirrup vases existed at
Knossos.
2 Op. cit., PL CI.