THE LOST COLOR GROUP. 



113 



work admirably conceived and adapted to the space at the artist's disposal. The 

 design may have no significance other than this. 



Sometimes the horizontal band is placed much below the plane of the greatest 

 horizontal diameter of the vase, as in figure 184. The long vertical panels are 

 decorated with a serpentine design. The design on the relatively large arched 

 panels is made up of a different arrangement of the same elements — narrow bands 

 and rows of spots. Groups of these cross at varying angles, producing an effective 

 bit of decoration. The lip is delicately modeled. 



The vase reproduced in figure 185 is exceptional from several points of view. 

 The equatorial band and the two tangent to the neck are simply those parts of 

 the cream-colored slip not covered by the red, instead of the thick white paste 

 employed in delineating the fundamental bands of the preceding figures. In the 

 latter also these were retraced in wax, so that the ultimate design never crossed 



Fig. 184. — Vase in which the peripheral 

 band and those tangent to the neck 

 are painted white. Lost color ware. */» 



Fig. 185. — Vase in which the peripheral band 

 and those tangent to the neck are painted 

 white and are crossed by the lost color 

 pattern. Lost color ware. V 2 



them, but was limited to the panels and the lower half of the body. Here, 

 however, the design is absolutely independent of the white bands crossing and 

 recrossing them in every direction. The foundation of the intricate design seems 

 to be a series of parallel bands carried in waves about the body of the vessel, 

 rising almost to the neck three times and as many times dropping a little below 

 the light equatorial band. Above and below these waves are loops, cross bands, 

 spots, circles, triangles, etc. The bottom was discolored (black) in the process 

 of firing. 



There is still another series of vases in which the peripheral bands and those 

 tangent to the neck are red on a light ground, as illustrated in Plate XLII (fig. b). 

 The upper light zone is crossed by two red bands tangent to the neck. The 

 bottom, lip and inner surface of the orifice are also red. The neck is ornamented 

 with a series of composite eye ornaments. The vertical panels are marked by 

 bands and by small triangular and oval to circular spotted fields. A disjointed 

 meander traverses each arched panel. 



Memoirs Conn. Acad , Vol. III. 15 



