Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 341
e remarkable for thebeauty and brilliancy of their glaze. According to dHancarville the vases were baked in a naked 328 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. furnace. Representations of ancient furnaces occur on paintedvases. The furnaces were of simple construction, in shape Hketall ovens, fed by fires from beneath,… … VASE REPRESENTiNTi A MATmiAOE. {Found at PompeU.) general classes. In the earlier the ground is }ellow or red, andthe figures are traced on it in black, so as to form kinds ofsilhouettes. These are called the black or archaic vases; theyare generally in an ancient style; their subjects belong to…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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