History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · New York, Scribner · leaf 283
remainedthe same to the final decadence of the art. The figures being;completed and protected from accidents by their broad blackborders, the varnishing of the whole exterior surface was then,proceeded with. This was of course a purely mechanicalbusiness. A fragment of a red-figured vase in the… … FIG. 71. FKAGMENT OF UNFINISHED RKD-FIGURED VASE.. The result of the second baking was to fix the varnish andcause it to permeate the surface of the clay in such a way as tobecome practically inseparable from it. The subsidiary colours,,on the other hand, which were laid on over the black, are…
Pottery, Ancient · Mythology, Greek
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