Rosette (design)

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Thalea funerary stela, decorated with three rosette designs. Found in Smyrne (Turkey). Approximately 150 BCE Hellenistic work.

Rosette design at the bottom of a statue of the Buddha, Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, circa 1st century CE.

A rosette is a stylized flower design, used extensively in antiquity. It is found in ancient Greece, from where it expanded into Central Asia, as far as India where it is used as a decorative motif in Greco-Buddhist art.

The rosette symbol derives from the natural motif of the rosette, appearing especially on the ground after a plant dies.

Today, rosettes are used in military decorations.

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