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EDITH H. HALL—DECORATIVE ART OF CRETE IN THE BRONZE AGE.
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(b) complicated designs made up it may be of simple, stock patterns
but constituting, by virtue of the way in which these motives are
combined, original compositions, e. g., Fig. 4.
Fig. 1, from J. #. & 1903, Fig. 2, from J. #. & 1903,
XXIII, p. 189, Fig. 8, 10. XXIII, PI. Y, 2.
The distinction between la and lb or lc is a distinction of degree for in Cretan
decorative art close studies of nature are rare. Flowers are always more or
less conventionally treated. Yet between the designs of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2
Fig. 3, from J. #. & 1903,
XXIII, p. 197, Fig. 13.
Fig. 4, from J5. & A. 1902-3,
IX, p. 20, Fig. 8.
there is too great a difference to admit of their being classed together. The
distinction between lb and lc is this, that conventionalized naturalistic designs
were once rendered in a more lifelike form; conventional naturalistic designs
were not.
EARLY MlNOAN 1.
From the first of the nine periods of Cretan bronze age pottery very little
ware has been found and none has as yet been fully published. It is reported/
however, to be similar to the neolithic ware directly above which it lies.
It is handmade and polished. Decoration, when it occurs, is obtained by
^ See A. J. Evans, op. cfL p. 5 and I?. & A. 1903-4, X, p. 22.
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(b) complicated designs made up it may be of simple, stock patterns
but constituting, by virtue of the way in which these motives are
combined, original compositions, e. g., Fig. 4.
Fig. 1, from J. #. & 1903, Fig. 2, from J. #. & 1903,
XXIII, p. 189, Fig. 8, 10. XXIII, PI. Y, 2.
The distinction between la and lb or lc is a distinction of degree for in Cretan
decorative art close studies of nature are rare. Flowers are always more or
less conventionally treated. Yet between the designs of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2
Fig. 3, from J. #. & 1903,
XXIII, p. 197, Fig. 13.
Fig. 4, from J5. & A. 1902-3,
IX, p. 20, Fig. 8.
there is too great a difference to admit of their being classed together. The
distinction between lb and lc is this, that conventionalized naturalistic designs
were once rendered in a more lifelike form; conventional naturalistic designs
were not.
EARLY MlNOAN 1.
From the first of the nine periods of Cretan bronze age pottery very little
ware has been found and none has as yet been fully published. It is reported/
however, to be similar to the neolithic ware directly above which it lies.
It is handmade and polished. Decoration, when it occurs, is obtained by
^ See A. J. Evans, op. cfL p. 5 and I?. & A. 1903-4, X, p. 22.