History of ancient pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1873)
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 155
125 COLOURING. Chap. I. face of Silenus, a Pan, and a Trojan or Asiatic, are of the same colour. Yellow, a colour which more readily flies, is not so frequently found ; but the base of a statue of Fortune, another of that of Ganymede holding a cock, and a vase in the shape of a panther, are of this… … No. 102.— Coloured Fipruve of Aphrodue. I" rom Gales. terra-cottas were made from the same earths, though of a coarser kind, as the ware itself. Some itself. information on this matter has been preserved by Theophrastus, Yitruvius, Dioscorides, and others. For white the painters used a white eartb…
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