{Crisis Resolution in Aegean Pottery Cycles}[29th December 1990]

[Redbook8:161][19901229:1210d]{Crisis Resolution in Aegean Pottery Cycles}[29th December 1990]

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‘The use of burnishing as a primary decorative technique* is most common in the Early and Middle Bronze Age. Incised patterns are early and Cycladic. The incised lines are sometimes filled with a white substance. Until the Cretan palaces were well established, most painted decoration was simple linear. After this, in Crete and subsequently on the mainland, it became increasingly complex and naturalistic motifs were adopted. In the course of time these often became stylised and their origin would be quite obscure were it not possible to trace the history of motifs from source. Such stylisation is particularly characteristic of the later part of our period.** Figured scenes occur but are not common.’

– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 1: 101-2

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*(of Aegean pottery)

**(Aegean, 3000-1100bce)

*** – illus[tration] E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 1: 102 <910725>

[‘An example of Kamares style pottery: a clay pithos from Phaestos; […] c1700BC[E]. Heraklion Museum’]

<inserted [in ms] 910725>

{cf [(presumably,) [Redbook8:162][19901229:1210f]{Aegean Art}[29th December 1990] [illustration],] 162,

[[Redbook8:166(-167)][19901231:1301c]{Protogeometric Pottery}[31st December 1990] [illustrations]],]

[[Redbook8:166-167][19901231:1301d]{Geometric Pottery}[31st December 1990] [illustrations]],] 167}

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