Resemblance between central rosette's "towers" and small-plants' "containers".

[-JKP-]

In a recent blog post I touched upon the subject of the similarity between the small-plants containers and the central rosette's towers.




This has obviously been noted before, but I haven't read any proposed solutions for it yet. Does anyone have an idea?

Okay... well, one of the ideas I have I'd like to keep to myself until I have time to write it up properly.


But... I have other ideas for why the "towers" on the rosettes page resemble containers, and this is one of them...

They look like towers, but they have feet. They look like containers, but they seem to be out of scale, bigger, like architectural features. Is there something that looks like towers, looks like containers (or is a container) and has feet? Something besides Jewish spice jars which usually have pointed roofs rather than domes...



Yes.This is just one example and perhaps not the best one in terms of the feet (Italy 12th century) but provides a possible explanation:

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To give a sense of how these vary, here is one from India, same basic kind of vessel, but with more emphasis on feet:

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One with a different style of feet (German, 12th century), and different style of upper (also German, 12 century):

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Cologne, Germany (15th century). This is more like a spice jar, so not a good example of shape, but still of interest because it is an early example of one that combines metal with glass:

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A synthesis of container and architecture (Netherlands):

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