Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c11.s1.100

c11.s1.100

The alternating spirals characteristic of a certain type of metal work (Fig. 53, c) are strictly ornament of the same type, and historically, its basis, but they would hardly be called *liya-veḷa* by Sinhalese painters. A noteworthy form on Keḷaniya pottery is shown in Fig. 42 and will be discussed with correlated examples in the Chapter on the History of Sinhalese Art; it will here suffice to note the archaic aspect of these types, suggestive at first sight of Greek and other Mediterranean forms.