LIFE FORMS IN VASE PAINTING. 



illustrates the effect pnidurni liy c Tdwdini;' tlie oblong figure into a 

 short rectangular space Tlie head is tinned back over the body and 

 the tail is thrown down along the side of the space. In Fig. •iW) the 

 figure occupies a circle, and is in consequence closely coiled up, giv- 

 ing the effect of a serpent rather than an alligator. In Fig. 367 the 

 sjjace is semicircular, and we observe peculiar conventional condi- 



tions, some of which : 

 such spaces may origii 

 figures, which tended t< 

 that supplanted them. 



be due \" other causes. Fur example, 

 have been filleil witli pTirely geometric 

 )art their own characters to the life forms 



Fici. ar,!). Deline; 



Now, it oftei 

 mal form, litei-.tlly rend 

 The head and the' tail d. 



at, as in the last t 



does not fill the p 

 )t correspond and th 



ance. In such cases two heads have been preferretl. The body is 

 given a uniform double curve and the heads are turned down, as 

 shown in Figs. 268 and 269, or one may turn up and the other down, 

 as seen in Fig. 270. The two heade<l form may also arise from inii- 



The example given 



