A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.57
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.57
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c17.57
The motive consisting of a vine or other conventionalized plant springing from a vase is common to Egyptian and ancient Indian art. M. Strzygowski gives three Egyptian examples in the essay cited above (*Abb.* 47, 50, 52). A good South Indian specimen, perhaps contemporaneous with the Sāñchī sculptures, is reproduced in Plate XC, Fig. A.