Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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antique pourer, employed sometimes inthe toilet as a receptacle for oils and unguents, and sometimes infuneral rites, to be placed with the deceased in the grave. Theform is generally elongated, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, more rarelybag-like or spherical. The foot is a plain ring foot, the neck longand narrow with a shoulder. The handle rises from the body up tothe upper end of the neck. As regards form and decoration, thesepretty vessels form special groups. The slender forms are the older,the spherical and depressed the later. Upright palmettes, as shownin fig. 1, are a characteristic decoration. The material is clay. Plate 195. The Lekythos, &c. 1—3. Greek, red clay, painted black. United collections, Carlsruhe. 4 — 6. Greek, red clay, painted black. 7. Greek, painted black and white, later period. 8. Greek, Attic style. 9. Ditto. 10--12. Greek, red clay, painted black. United collections, Carlsruhe.13. Greek, red clay, painted black and white, Munich, (Lau). VASES. 329
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The Prochous, the Oinochoe, the Olpe, &c. Plate 194. 380 The Lekythos. — The Lip-spout Pitcher. 14. Greek Arj^ballos (perfume vase), United collections, Catii-ruhe. 15. Greek Aryballos, painted black, United collections, Carlsruhe. 16. Greek, Perfume - vase, with hoop handle, painted black.United collections, Carlsruhe. 17. Greek Lekythos, later period, United collections, Carlsraht. The Lip-spout Pitcher. (Plates 196—197.) The want of some uniform nomenclature makes itself felt notonly in the case of antique vessels, but also with such colloquialexpressions as pitcher, jug, pot, can, bottle, &c., whichinclude a great variety of forms, so that what one calls pitchers andpots another calls jugs and cans. To maintain at least some kindof system in this handbook, we class all vessels with vertical handles,(unless they belong to some special category), as Pitchers if theyhave the usual mouth with a lip; and as Pots if they have a pipe-like spout. The material and size, of the

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