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 INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 321 Carian artist sometimes aspired to a higher standard, in at least two vases of the same fabrication, wherein are introduced shapes borrowed from the living world. 1 They came out of a tomb near Idrias, where they had lain along with human ashes in a huge funerary jar, resembling at all points the examples of the Assarlik necropolis. To name them in their ascending scale, the less important is a two-handled bowl (Fig. 231). The band below the rim stands out in light against the dark ground, and between the vertical bars, dividing it into a number of panels, the brush has traced roughly suggested birds. These, though imperfectly seen in our illustration, thanks to the bits of colour that still adhere to the piece, are quite distinct in the original. The second vase is FIG. 231. Vase from Idrias. Winter, p. 226. FIG. 232. Vase from Idrias. Ibid. exceedingly curious. It has a very protuberant contour, but its long narrow neck and handle are broken (Fig. 232). The markings of the latter are plainly seen on the body. The decoration consisted in part of bands, turning round the body at irregular intervals ; but a more complicated arrangement than any from the same workshop is found in the lines that appear in the centre (Fig. 233). The meanders and oblique lines cross each other at acute angles, and form triangles, the surface of which is now sprinkled with dots, now taken up with fine trellis-work, now with the checker-pattern, which we observed in Cyprus, and which likewise occurs on countless Greek vases of the archaic period. The special interest which attaches to this piece is the figure introduced at the side of the 1 WINTER, Vasen aus Karien, pp. 226, 227, 232-234.