History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Based on the work of Samuel Birch (1905)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp), 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 326
ance of the Invariable rule that all Etruscan pottery is more or less imitative. Similar vases in metal were manufactured on the coast of Asia Minor, and the avaQ^ara of the Lydian kings at Delphi1 were probably examples of this class.2 The second class shows some affinities to the other in regard… … From Gaz. Arch. FIG. 180. PAINTED ETRUSCAN PITHOS FROM CERVETRI (IN LOUVRIi) : BIRTH OF ATHENA ; BOAR-HUNT. glazed ground, the process being as follows : The clay, which resembles the impasto Italico , is first hardened by baking, and then a mixture of wax and resin and iron oxide is applied to it,…
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