17: Design of Spiral and Rosettes

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/1/12
Level Item
Scope and Content A repeating pattern with swirls and flowers, in red, white, yellow, and shades of blue. Framed. The original description in the catalogue reads: "17-18 Wall paintings from houses of Middle Cycladic date: These are not strictly fresco, but were painted on thin limewash, sometimes obliterating earlier decorations. A jar from settlement contained the crimson pigment, a mixed silicate and oxide of iron; other colours are blue, yellow, white, and a faded red, with black for outlines. The designs are in Cretan style: but compare the naturalistic decoration of the pottery (2-6, 8a above). 17 Design of Spiral and Rosettes, reconstructed by T. D. Atkinson: compare spiral fresco designs from Knossos in the Minoan Room"
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/6838.C6847], The wall in the gallery space of the 1936 Exhibition, Burlington House, London showing images of material and scenes from the BSA excavations at Phylakopi, Melos (No. 13-18) and Kamares Cave, Crete (No. 71-75)., 1936