Over the field are scatteredpalmettes and lotus forms, all connected by running vines.
The border is often a light ground covered with a design in the form of rosettes and palmettes connected by a running vine.
Upper part of stele, surmounted by a central palmette, and two palmettes at the sides, broken.
One central palmette, and two half palmettes at the sides spring from acanthus leaves.
Two fragments of the cymatium cornice, with a pattern of palmettes alternating with palmettes of a plainer form, springing from acanthus leaves as on the cornice of the Erechtheion.
He also states that towards the middle of the XVII Century the borders began to lose their importance and that the palmettes were surrounded by two long, narrow leaves.
Nevertheless the accurate balance of the different halves, and the drawing of the palmettes show that it is distinctly Iranian.
The palmettes show distinctly a strong Persian influence and the animal forms likewise show that it was not woven by a sectarian Sunnite of Western Asia Minor.
Surrounding the fields are borders of several stripes, some of which contain an undulating vine with pendent flowers or palmettes co-ordinate in drawing and colouring with the main pattern.
Conspicuous among this tracery were palmettes and such flowers as the lotus and peony, which were often most realistically drawn.
There are likewise palmettes of simpler form in the two guard stripes.
For instance, the palmettes were at first small and distributed plentifully over the field; later they became larger, until in a few instances they were a yard in diameter.
The wide-bellied lekythi have palmettes or egg-pattern above the design, and maeander below.
Later, it becomes a common device on the necks of vases, the ornament taking the form of a decorative combination of palmettes (see below, p.
On the kylix, the ornament is throughout confined to the palmettes under the handles and the maeander encircling the interior design, which have been dealt with already (Vol.
Another important and very effective improvement is achieved by placing opposed pairs of palmettes no longer vertically, but obliquely, forming an upper or lower border to the design (Fig.
The stamnos has egg-patterns round the lip and handles, tongue-pattern round the shoulder, and a system of palmettes between the designs.
Corinthian vases have a composition of lotos-flowers only; Chalcidian, palmettes only (cf.
But it is also interesting to observe the appearance of a new vegetable element in the form of friezes of palmettes and lotos-flowers.
The ornaments are palmettes and maeander, with crosses or stars, in black only.
As the tendency to cover the whole of the exterior space with the design increased, the intervening space under the handle came to be filled in also, by extending the tendrils of the palmettes and terminating them with buds (Fig.
The ornaments are palmettesand maeander, in black and red, the subjects almost exclusively funerary.
The panels on the oinochoae are often bordered with ivy, network, or dots, as on the hydriae; on the lekythos the ornament is confined to a row of lotos-buds or palmettes on the shoulder.
The palmettes are further increased to three or four each side, and in the arrangement is seen the tendency to freedom even at the cost of symmetry already noted, as in Fig.
In the latter the palmettes are often omitted altogether,[1303] especially where the two exterior scenes are connected; or their place is taken by some figure under the handle, as on vases by Hieron or Brygos.
Rather later is the pair with incised palmettes above the knees (No.
A row of silver studs and a silver band decorate the rim of this helmet, and there are remains of ornaments in relief, palmettes on forehead and at the ears, and on each cheek-piece a horseman.
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