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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 341
remarkable for thebeauty and brilliancy of their glaze. According to dTIancarville 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 liketall ovens, fed by fires from beneath,… … VASE REPRESENTING A MARRIAGE. (Found at Pompeii.) general classes. In the earlier the ground is yellow 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…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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