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i52 FLORAL ORNAMENTS
proportions. This type is the ringed palmette, shown in fig. 58, c;1
another version of the same motive is the looped palmette, which is
illustrated in fig. 58, d.2 This appears not to be found on earlier vases,
though it is obviously analogous to the Protocorinthian fig. 58, B. Palmette
ornaments constructed on the same principle are a regular feature of Corinthian
antefixes from the early sixth century onwards (see below, p. 255 ff.); Variant
forms, fig. 58, E-F, occur on several early Corinthian vases.3 On middle and
late vases, this ornament is extended in the manner shown in fig. 59, A-B,
on the analogy of the lotus and palmette ornaments already discussed.4 A
curious revival of the Protocorinthian interest in the volutes, at the expense of
a
Fig. 59. a, cf. no. 558; b, cf. no. 1213.
the palmettes, is represented by the ornament schematically shown, from
a rough sketch, in fig. 60; the form, however, bears no resemblance to that
of any known Protocorinthian ornament.5 We see something of the same
kind in the contemporary plates nos. 1049-51.
Palmettes as handle ornaments. The adjustment of the ornament to the
handle, or handles, of a vase was a problem which rarely attracted attention
before the middle of the sixth century. As has been pointed out, the 'handle
motive' of earlier periods, if such it can be called, was an animal, or a group
of animals, adapted to the space beneath the handle, but not technically
related to the handle itself. It is all the more curious that Greek artists were
slow to realize the possibilities of this form of decoration, for in the seventh
century, and even much earlier,6 we find occasional evidence that it was
appreciated. The Protocorinthian examples are the following: mould for
1 Cf. pi. 22, 7 and the aryballoi catalogued under 4 Cf., for instance, nos. 834, 1288,1289; C.V.A.
no. 633. Haguei.pl. 5,11. Cf. also the very complex ornament
2 Aryballos no. 634, pyxis pi. 23, 3, oinochoe no. on no. 985.
740, column crater 776; in the late period we have a 5 Cf. the alabastron no. 435, which should probably
variant on the crater no. 1471 which also has an early have been placed in the middle Corinthian category,
analogy in Johansen pi. 16, 7. For other over-elaborate patterns on similar vases
3 Cf. the aryballos no. 531, and for the second the see no. 433 and ff., and nos. 799, 800.
alabastron no. 459 and the olpe no. 759, which are 6 See Jacobsthal, Ornamente 30.
by the same hand.
proportions. This type is the ringed palmette, shown in fig. 58, c;1
another version of the same motive is the looped palmette, which is
illustrated in fig. 58, d.2 This appears not to be found on earlier vases,
though it is obviously analogous to the Protocorinthian fig. 58, B. Palmette
ornaments constructed on the same principle are a regular feature of Corinthian
antefixes from the early sixth century onwards (see below, p. 255 ff.); Variant
forms, fig. 58, E-F, occur on several early Corinthian vases.3 On middle and
late vases, this ornament is extended in the manner shown in fig. 59, A-B,
on the analogy of the lotus and palmette ornaments already discussed.4 A
curious revival of the Protocorinthian interest in the volutes, at the expense of
a
Fig. 59. a, cf. no. 558; b, cf. no. 1213.
the palmettes, is represented by the ornament schematically shown, from
a rough sketch, in fig. 60; the form, however, bears no resemblance to that
of any known Protocorinthian ornament.5 We see something of the same
kind in the contemporary plates nos. 1049-51.
Palmettes as handle ornaments. The adjustment of the ornament to the
handle, or handles, of a vase was a problem which rarely attracted attention
before the middle of the sixth century. As has been pointed out, the 'handle
motive' of earlier periods, if such it can be called, was an animal, or a group
of animals, adapted to the space beneath the handle, but not technically
related to the handle itself. It is all the more curious that Greek artists were
slow to realize the possibilities of this form of decoration, for in the seventh
century, and even much earlier,6 we find occasional evidence that it was
appreciated. The Protocorinthian examples are the following: mould for
1 Cf. pi. 22, 7 and the aryballoi catalogued under 4 Cf., for instance, nos. 834, 1288,1289; C.V.A.
no. 633. Haguei.pl. 5,11. Cf. also the very complex ornament
2 Aryballos no. 634, pyxis pi. 23, 3, oinochoe no. on no. 985.
740, column crater 776; in the late period we have a 5 Cf. the alabastron no. 435, which should probably
variant on the crater no. 1471 which also has an early have been placed in the middle Corinthian category,
analogy in Johansen pi. 16, 7. For other over-elaborate patterns on similar vases
3 Cf. the aryballos no. 531, and for the second the see no. 433 and ff., and nos. 799, 800.
alabastron no. 459 and the olpe no. 759, which are 6 See Jacobsthal, Ornamente 30.
by the same hand.