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MINIATURE DESIGNS OF EMBROIDERIES
Com-
parison
with
painted
reliefs
from
Pseira.
a thick white engobe (Fig. 20). The whole technique was of very fine
execution and the chevron and spiral motive itself suggests an interesting
parallel with that of the engaged columns of the ' Atreus' facade at
Mycenae. These, however, as can be seen in the fragment, Fig. 21, and
the restored sketch, Fig. 22, formed parts of the borders of ladies' jackets,
and the variation in
their ground colour
is explained by the
fact that we see
here the spring of
the shoulder out-
line of two figures.
We may con-
clude that there
Fig. 22. Partial Restoration of the Figures
to which the fragment, flg. 21, delongs.
(Compare the Painted Stucco Relief from
Knossos, Fig. 27, at the end of the Section.)
were here two female personages seated
side by side after the manner of the
* Ladies in Blue'.
An even closer comparison both in
style and date is suggested by the
remains of two female figures found by
Seager in one of the principal houses in
the Island of Pseira,1 where the rebuild-
ing was carried out towards the close
of M. M. III.2 These were also partially
executed in relief and the chevron pattern also forms in one case part of the
sleeve decoration. A smaller fragment of a similar relief (Fig. 27, below)3
was found at Knossos in the same heap as the above.
The miniature designs on the Knossian fragments under discussion
seem, as already noted from the waving lines that contain them, to belong
Fresco Fragments of Two
Female Figures.
1 In Mr. Seager's original publication (Ex-
cavations on the Island of Pseira, Crete, 1910,
PI. V and pp. 32-4) the fragments were re-
stored as belonging to a single figure. The
revised restoration of the fresco by M.
Gillieron, fils, in the Museum at Candia,
shows two seated figures. The fragments had
fallen from an upper floor (op. at., p. 15).
2 Seager, op. at., p. 10. He also extends
the process of rebuilding into L. M. I.
3 As restored by M. Gillieron, fils.
Com-
parison
with
painted
reliefs
from
Pseira.
a thick white engobe (Fig. 20). The whole technique was of very fine
execution and the chevron and spiral motive itself suggests an interesting
parallel with that of the engaged columns of the ' Atreus' facade at
Mycenae. These, however, as can be seen in the fragment, Fig. 21, and
the restored sketch, Fig. 22, formed parts of the borders of ladies' jackets,
and the variation in
their ground colour
is explained by the
fact that we see
here the spring of
the shoulder out-
line of two figures.
We may con-
clude that there
Fig. 22. Partial Restoration of the Figures
to which the fragment, flg. 21, delongs.
(Compare the Painted Stucco Relief from
Knossos, Fig. 27, at the end of the Section.)
were here two female personages seated
side by side after the manner of the
* Ladies in Blue'.
An even closer comparison both in
style and date is suggested by the
remains of two female figures found by
Seager in one of the principal houses in
the Island of Pseira,1 where the rebuild-
ing was carried out towards the close
of M. M. III.2 These were also partially
executed in relief and the chevron pattern also forms in one case part of the
sleeve decoration. A smaller fragment of a similar relief (Fig. 27, below)3
was found at Knossos in the same heap as the above.
The miniature designs on the Knossian fragments under discussion
seem, as already noted from the waving lines that contain them, to belong
Fresco Fragments of Two
Female Figures.
1 In Mr. Seager's original publication (Ex-
cavations on the Island of Pseira, Crete, 1910,
PI. V and pp. 32-4) the fragments were re-
stored as belonging to a single figure. The
revised restoration of the fresco by M.
Gillieron, fils, in the Museum at Candia,
shows two seated figures. The fragments had
fallen from an upper floor (op. at., p. 15).
2 Seager, op. at., p. 10. He also extends
the process of rebuilding into L. M. I.
3 As restored by M. Gillieron, fils.