This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...tombs and altars; some good examples of this style are in Westminster Abbey on the tomb of Edward the Confessor (finished under Henry III, A.d. 1270). Z1 D 1/" It is difficult in the igth century to realise A the importance of vases in ancient life. To ppD A A/f T C the Greeks a vase was a receptacle for food, lv0. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...tombs and altars; some good examples of this style are in Westminster Abbey on the tomb of Edward the Confessor (finished under Henry III, A.d. 1270). Z1 D 1/" It is difficult in the igth century to realise A the importance of vases in ancient life. To ppD A A/f T C the Greeks a vase was a receptacle for food, lv0. iiqUid; or storage, and for the adornment of the home. It was used in the daily life of the living and buried with the dead. Most of the finer Greek vases have been found in Etruscan tombs, but of Greek workmanship, imported from Greece or Grecian Colonies. Some black unglazed Etruscan vases have been found, but painted vases of Etruscan origin are rare. Early Greek pottery, dating probably from the ioth century B.C., has been found in Greece, the Colonies of Rhodes, Cyrene in Africa, and Naucratis in the delta of Egypt--these, showing an historic development, are arranged in groups, each with its distinctive characteristic: --(ist) Primitive vases, simple in shape, handles small or absent, decorations in simple line, punctured or incised, or in raised slip. (2nd) Mycenae or Colonial (b.c. 900-700) vases, often covered with a creamy slip; the designs painted in brown and black, being derived from geometric patterns with marine and animal forms. (3rd) Dipylon or Geometric (b.c 700), with fret pattern enrichment, and panels with rude figures of men and animals in black and brown. (4th) Phaleron Ware (b.c. 700-550), with continuous bands of animals, probably derived from Phoenicia or Assyria (fig. 4). Among the animals depicted, are placed portions of the fret pattern, a survival of the previous style. The details are incised through the black or brown figure, showing the colour of the clay body. A development of this Phaleron Ware was the intro...
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