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Title

Figure from Athenian red-figure vase, holding trefoil shoot. According to tradition, the curling stem of a species of trefoil cpmmon in Greece gave inspiration to the volute seen in Ionic capitals.

Alternative Title

Original of the Ionic Volute from an Athenian terra-cotta Vase.

Date

1816

Bibliographic Citation

CLARKE, Edward Daniel. Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. Part the second: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land: Section the third. To which is added a Supplement respecting the Author's Journey from Constantinople to Vienna, containing his Account of the Gold Mines of Transylvania and Hungary, London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, MDCCCXVI [=1816].

Area/Place

Greece
Attica
Athens

Subject

Art and antiquities

Collection

The Gennadius Library - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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