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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. 283 combined them with geometrical figures and sometimes produced a result which is not unattractive. A chef-d'oeuvre of the class is here reproduced (Fig. 217). The body is formed of a horizontal cylinder bent into a hoop, the liquid being introduced through a lateral orifice in the neck. The cylinder stands upon three feet, and is surmounted by a convenient handle. The result is perhaps a little barbarous, but it is not unpleasant on the whole, while it betrays an art to which neither ambition nor refinement are strangers. FlG. 213. Bottle with double neck. Feuardent collection. Side by side with these vessels others have been found on which all ornament is carried out in paint, but even there we find shapes recalling those we have been studying. Such, for instance, is the quaint bottle here reproduced (Fig. 218). The surface is smooth, but the memory of an older fashion survives in the sus- pension holes inserted at the base of the neck ; the latter is very short, and so arranged as to be easy to drink from. We are thus carried on to more simple forms until we come to a jug entirely