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 172
wn through the glaze with a sharj) point,often handled with minute i:)recision. In order to obtain relieffrom the conventional treatment of all the subject in black, all thevisible flesh of the female tigui-es was afterwards painted in white(which might again be incised) and fired at a lower heat.… … Fig. 47.—The hlack-tijiiire and red-figure styles. (From a vase l>y Audokides.) tional maimer, to distinguish one mass fiom another, withoutmuch reference to the natural colour of the objects. By such methods the artists of the black-figure jjottery werft ableto attain a considerable height of…
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