226), the ground colour of a deep ocean blue, admirably pure and intense, upon which a fern-leaf pattern in yellow stands out both boldly and delicately.

A yellow thread runs round the rim, and two little handles of light green are attached to the neck.

A miniature amphora of the same height (fig.

227) is of a dark, semi-transparent olive green.

A zone of blue and yellow zigzags, bounded above and below by yellow bands, encircles the body of the vase at the part of its largest circumference.