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156 FLORAL ORNAMENTS
Double lotus and double palmette: fig. 67 a.1
Doublepalmette chains: fig. 67 b. This pattern occurs on middle and late
Corinthian vases.2 It first appears in Attica about the end of the first
quarter of the sixth century.3
Encircled and slanting palmettes and related forms occur on a group of very
late vases—the former on no. 1514, the latter on nos. 1491 and ff., and 1553;
examples are shown in figs. 174 bis, 179, 195 (see the remarks s.v. in the
catalogue).
Ivy pattern. Figs. 178, 187, 195. This type appears in Attica in the early
red-figure period (cf. C.V.A. Villa Giulia iii He pi. 11, 1), and commonly
after this; it is a development of the Ionian ivy pattern which we find on
a b c
Fig. 66. a, cf. no. 1489; b, cf. no. 1488; c, cf. no. 1505 A
a b
Fig. 67. a, no. 890; b, cf. no. 875 a.
Caeretan, Chalcidian vases, &c.4 The type fig. 66 c may be earlier: cf. Fikel-
lura vases such as S. H. pi. 16, 446 (rim) and C.V.A. Louvre ii d c pi. 2, 10.
Filling ornaments.
The various types of filling ornament used on Corinthian vases are almost
all illustrated in our plates. It will suffice therefore to point out one or two
distinctions which serve to make clearer the stylistic divisions here indicated.
The filling ornament of early vases consists almost exclusively of incised
rosettes. These are often patched with red, and are sometimes dotted with
white. Small shapeless blobs may be used to fill out the corners, but on early
vases we never find the system of large rosettes and tiny dots which we see
in pi. 36, 12, nor the pot-pourri like profusion of shrivelled petals which
obscures the figures of pi. 28,10-12. Unincised rosettes occur on one or two
vases (pi. 20, 3 and no. 523). The edges of the rosettes are not very deeply
1 Pyxis no. 890. Cf. the Chalcidian hydria, Rumpf A.M. 1890, pi. 12, 2; Francois vase (handles),
pi. 17; very common, in a later form (with elongated 4 e.g. Albizzati pi. 19; Pfuhl fig. 162. A compara-
palmettes), on Nikosthenic vases. tively severe form, comparable to that of these
2 Nos. 868,875 a, 885, 892, 943 a, cf. also fig. 65 d, examples, was still used quite late in the fifth century:
and no. 941. cf., for instance, Stackelberg, Graeber der Hellenen
3 Graf, Akropolisvasen iv, pi. 98, 2400, 2405; pi. 17. See Gow in J.H.S. 1913, 211.
Double lotus and double palmette: fig. 67 a.1
Doublepalmette chains: fig. 67 b. This pattern occurs on middle and late
Corinthian vases.2 It first appears in Attica about the end of the first
quarter of the sixth century.3
Encircled and slanting palmettes and related forms occur on a group of very
late vases—the former on no. 1514, the latter on nos. 1491 and ff., and 1553;
examples are shown in figs. 174 bis, 179, 195 (see the remarks s.v. in the
catalogue).
Ivy pattern. Figs. 178, 187, 195. This type appears in Attica in the early
red-figure period (cf. C.V.A. Villa Giulia iii He pi. 11, 1), and commonly
after this; it is a development of the Ionian ivy pattern which we find on
a b c
Fig. 66. a, cf. no. 1489; b, cf. no. 1488; c, cf. no. 1505 A
a b
Fig. 67. a, no. 890; b, cf. no. 875 a.
Caeretan, Chalcidian vases, &c.4 The type fig. 66 c may be earlier: cf. Fikel-
lura vases such as S. H. pi. 16, 446 (rim) and C.V.A. Louvre ii d c pi. 2, 10.
Filling ornaments.
The various types of filling ornament used on Corinthian vases are almost
all illustrated in our plates. It will suffice therefore to point out one or two
distinctions which serve to make clearer the stylistic divisions here indicated.
The filling ornament of early vases consists almost exclusively of incised
rosettes. These are often patched with red, and are sometimes dotted with
white. Small shapeless blobs may be used to fill out the corners, but on early
vases we never find the system of large rosettes and tiny dots which we see
in pi. 36, 12, nor the pot-pourri like profusion of shrivelled petals which
obscures the figures of pi. 28,10-12. Unincised rosettes occur on one or two
vases (pi. 20, 3 and no. 523). The edges of the rosettes are not very deeply
1 Pyxis no. 890. Cf. the Chalcidian hydria, Rumpf A.M. 1890, pi. 12, 2; Francois vase (handles),
pi. 17; very common, in a later form (with elongated 4 e.g. Albizzati pi. 19; Pfuhl fig. 162. A compara-
palmettes), on Nikosthenic vases. tively severe form, comparable to that of these
2 Nos. 868,875 a, 885, 892, 943 a, cf. also fig. 65 d, examples, was still used quite late in the fifth century:
and no. 941. cf., for instance, Stackelberg, Graeber der Hellenen
3 Graf, Akropolisvasen iv, pi. 98, 2400, 2405; pi. 17. See Gow in J.H.S. 1913, 211.