Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman vases (1893)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 56
ing, beforewhich the clay would have been too soft to withstand rubbing.It was probably done just before the decorations were ap-plied, as one object of the operation was to prepare a goodsurface for the drawing. The tool used for polishing appearsto have been a piece of wood or hard leather, such… … fectly smooth, but also, of course, of uniform color through-out. It was upon this surface that the decorations werepainted, and as the process of decoration differed ^^e decora-somewhat in the black-figured and the red-figured °^-vases, we will first de-scribe that of the black-figured, the…
Vases -- Massachusetts Boston · Vases, Greek
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
