7e: Conventional Designs

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/1/3/4
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 12.6 x 10.1 cm
Scope and Content An illustration of a fragment of pottery, showing the head of a bird. Different colours are suggested by the textures of the ink. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Conventional designs on vases of Late Minoan I and II styles ... e, f belong to the naturalistic group (6) above. These derivations of the naturalistic designs (6, above) supersede the local Cycladic style about 1500 B.C., and are characteristic of the early part of the Third Settlement of Phylakopi."
Related records [1936/1/1/3], 7: Conventional Designs