Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 182
VASE PAINTING IN GREECE 159 grotesque as their decorations, — flat, spherical, oval,or jug-shaped; they belong to about one thousandto six hundred years before Christ. Corinthian Ware With the Corinthian1 ware we come down to theperiod of known history, to the seventh and sixth … Achilles and Neoptolemos centuries. Its peculiarity is the oriental characterof its decoration. It was undoubtedly produced at 1 The clay of Corinth contained only a small portion of oxide of ironcompared with aluminum, and the Corinthian vases are therefore pale incolor and have a powdery surface;…
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