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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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rnal;the simplicity in clay (fig. 5), passes into richness when metal is em-ployed (figs. 6—7). Bacchic attributes, the vine, ivy, the thyrsos,masks, &c,, from the decoration. The Kyathos, a dipper and drinking vessel at once, is a dishwith the handle elongated vertically and sometimes replaced by astraight handle, which gives the vessel somewhat of the appearence ofa spoon (figs. 8, 9, 10). The Skyphos is a dish with two horizontal handles (figs. 11);the Kothon (fig. 12), is the military drinking vessel, a vessel witha broad rim bent inwards, out of which one could only drinkby bending the neck right back; but it was convenient for dippingwater from brooks, and the in-curved rim caught the impurities ofthe water so that they remained behind both in dipping and drinking,(Semper). We might further adduce the Deinos, the drinking vessel ofHercules, the amphikypellon, a double beaker mentioned by Homer,the Kalathos, and others. But the examples selected above maysuffice. VASES. 341
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The Kylix, the Kantharos, &c. Plate 201 342 The Kylix, the Kantharos, &c. — The Rhyton. Plate 201. The Kyux, the Kantharos, &c. 1. Antique Kylix, painted clay, Museum, Naples. 2. The same vessel, viewed from below. 8. Greek Kylix, bronze, found in sarcophagus at Cephalonia, (Stackel-berg). 4. Greek Kylix, bronze, found in Ithaca. 5. Antique Kantharos, black painted clay, United collections, Carls-ruhe. 6. Antique Kylix, beaten silver, Hildesheim treasure. Museum, Berlin. 7. Antique Kantharos, beaten silver, found at Berthouville nearBernay, Bibliothfeque Nationale, Paris. 8. Antique Kyathos, black painted clay. United collections, Carlsruhe. 9. Antique Kyathos, painted clay. United collections, Carlsruhe. 10. Antique Skyphos, metal, (Menard et Sauvageot). 11. Antique Skyphos, painted clay. 12. Antique Kothon, painted clay. United collections, Carlsnihe. The Rhyton. (Plate 202.) The primaeval custom, of using the Horns of animals as drinkingvessels, led to the Drinking-Ho

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