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Container – wide mouth basin
Lotus Flower –
Water Lily -
Sacred
Garlands and flower collars
Used Flowers as decorations
Vases were called faience

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Wreath around head
– given to heroes, poets, athletes, leaders, soldiers
Vases not commonly used to hold flowers
Petals were commonly scatted on the ground
Cornucopia – Horn of Plenty – used upright, now we use it on it’s side.

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Wreath and Garlands
– heavy and elaborate
Liked fragrant flowers
First used mixed flowers in basket
Rose used because of their fragrance
Naturalistic flower bouquets used

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Symmetrical designs
Trees shaped arrangements
Biedermeier arrangements

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Not much known
Flowers were used in food, drink and medicine
Fragrant flowers were favored

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Flourishing of Art – very religious
Rose meant love and sacred
White lily meant fertility, purity and virginity (Known as the Madonna lily)
Flowers in paintings
– white lily

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First to do Art Deco
Flowers were no longer for just the church and nobility, but for the middle class.
Wild Lines in designs
Used Tulips
Hogarth curve designs
A great variety of flowers in one vase arrangement
Common vases were ewers – water pitchers

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Mass and Fan
Shapes
Designs were large scale
Centerpiece

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Fragrant very important
Believed that fragrant would rid the air of contagious and infectious diseases.
Nosegay - Tussie
Mussies
Corsages and
Boutonnieres came from this period
Bud Vases
First to introduce formal centerpieces

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Lavish decorations, heavy color and patterns
First to establish rule to designing an arrangement
Women were the first to be designers
Large mass – Very Compact
Arrangements
Added Fruits and Vegetables
Men started bringing women flowers in courtship – posy holders (Bouquets)
Men and women wore bosom bottles (Corsages and boutonnieres)

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China and Japan
Line very important
Ikebana
Influence – very few flowers are used

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Early American – focus was not on flowers, but herbs, and food.
Colonial – Round –
Williamsburg arrangements
Fruits and vegetables were used in arrangements
Art Deco
Free Form
Geometric mass Design
Contemporary Design