. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . during the closing M. M. Ill phase. So faras plant designs are concerned, the beginnings of this influence have been 6o4 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Influenceof Natu-ralisticWall-paintingon The LilyJars. already illustrated among the latest works of M. M. II by the close analogy that the flowers on the polychrome bowl, Fig. 197 above,^ pre-sent to those of the Saffron Gatherer. Another poly-chrome jug of the same date shows a lily spray,^
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . during the closing M. M. Ill phase. So faras plant designs are concerned, the beginnings of this influence have been 6o4 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Influenceof Natu-ralisticWall-paintingon The LilyJars. already illustrated among the latest works of M. M. II by the close analogy that the flowers on the polychrome bowl, Fig. 197 above,^ pre-sent to those of the Saffron Gatherer. Another poly-chrome jug of the same date shows a lily spray,^ which may also have been ex-cerpted from some, parallel composition on the Palace walls. The monochrome successors of such floral subjects that. now appear make up for the deficiency of colouring by greater picturesqueness of treatment, and in this way present a nearer relation to their proto-types in the greater Art. The fondness of the M. M. Ill vase painters for groups of lilies recalls the beautiful fragment of painted stucco from the South-East House belonging ap-parently to the early part of the present Period. The white Madonna lilies on. Fig. 444. Hagia Triada Lily Group from Fresco;(from a Sketch). a purplish ground seen on the jars of the little See above, p. 264. = See above, p. 264, Fig. 196. Ill: SURVIVALS OF CERAMIC POLYCHROMY 605 Magazine described above, which must be reckoned among the most beautifulproducts of Ill ceramic Art, are reproduced on a larger scale inFig. 443. These closely resemble some clumps of the same flower that Com-appear in the foreground of a naturalistic wall-painting, representing the ^tth^ phase of M. M. Ill, found in the little Palace of Hagia Triada. TriadaA- lily group from this fresco design is given in black and white forcomparison in Fig. 444.^ Other plant motives which appear in dark on light and in the newtechnique on the pottery of the beginning of the first Late Minoan Periodhad already made their appearance
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