Art, Symbol & Imagination
Vessels and branching ornaments: Paper Marks
Lettered vessels, looped handles and branching ornaments fill Plate XXIII. Some forms remain recognisably pot-like while others become elaborate combinations of lines and circles. Pott reproduces the variations within her paper-mark series, whose interpretation she acknowledges as open to further examination.
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Illustrator not identified. "Vessels and branching ornaments: Paper Marks" [editorial title]. In Francis Bacon and His Secret Society, Constance Mary Pott. 1891, S. Low, Marston. Source scan leaf 403. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0028-0403
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Illustrator not identified. Vessels and branching ornaments: Paper Marks. Francis Bacon and His Secret Society. Scan leaf 403. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0028-0403