A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 167
lack and purple on a yellowground. It will be observed that the outlines and details areemphasized or defined, with incised lines drawn in the colouredglaze and the surface of the clay vvitli a sharp point. This method, 154 The First Vase Room. which occurs occasionally on the Rhodian vases, as in… … -Jigure vases (see below in the Second A^ase Room), and did notcease to be used until after the introduction of the red-iigurestyle (Third Vase Room). Vases from Naucratis. 155 Cases 44-45 also contain examples of porcelain vases, such usthose described in Case E (p. 157). Cases 46-47 and 50-51…
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