103.—P. [116].
Another stitch ornament is seen on the stuffs used for covering thrones in the XXth dynasty. There star and cross patterns are used which are evidently stitch work or embroidery; and in the spaces are discs of colour with white spots around, probably pieces sewn on by stitches round the edge. On a dress of Ramessu II. also are little six-pointed stars, which were doubtless stitch work.
104.—R.S. lxxxiii.
Fig. 105.
There can be no doubt of the effect that stitching has had on the use of rosettes, but other varieties are probably independent of that. The great series of rosettes is in the moulded glazed ware of Tell el Amarna; there several dozen varieties are found, varying from four petals to thirty-two. The more elaborate of these have an unmistakable daisy centre of yellow in the midst of white petals, and this indicates what was probably the flower in mind for most of them.
The rosette is found in varied use. On metal vases it is very general, and may either be a separate ornament of beaten work riveted on, like the rosettes on the silver ox head at Mykenae, or else embossed repoussé in the metal. Carved in wood or ivory, rosettes decorated the furniture; and they are constantly found as centre ornaments in square patterns, and along borders with the lotus or other subject.
