8o EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
vine leaves and bunches of grapes hang-
ing from a trellis pattern which covers
it.
w.
IS
At Tell el Amarna some fragments
found were very free
and natural, but in
the XXth dynasty it
became a stiff and
formal affair. (Tomb of
Aimadua, Ramessu X.).
Bunches of grapes also formed favourite
pendants; as such they
154.—p.
Wffl'
t
ISS-—p- 79.
B£ are painted in rows
hanging from architraves
of wooden buildings (tomb of Ra, Amen-
hotep II.); and frequently in blue glazed
ware bunches of grapes are
found of varying sizes, with
half of the upper part cut
Fig. 156. away so as to affix them by
a peg-hole to a square wooden beam of
the ceiling.
vine leaves and bunches of grapes hang-
ing from a trellis pattern which covers
it.
w.
IS
At Tell el Amarna some fragments
found were very free
and natural, but in
the XXth dynasty it
became a stiff and
formal affair. (Tomb of
Aimadua, Ramessu X.).
Bunches of grapes also formed favourite
pendants; as such they
154.—p.
Wffl'
t
ISS-—p- 79.
B£ are painted in rows
hanging from architraves
of wooden buildings (tomb of Ra, Amen-
hotep II.); and frequently in blue glazed
ware bunches of grapes are
found of varying sizes, with
half of the upper part cut
Fig. 156. away so as to affix them by
a peg-hole to a square wooden beam of
the ceiling.