Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 80
, wasascribed the first great improvement inthe art from the archaic stiffness, and hewas said to have been the first to paintthe open mouth showing teeth. We shallsee very soon that a century before Polyg-notus a lion was painted by an unknownartist with open mouth and white teeth.The Phcnicians… … 47. Greek Amphora, Medea. 7G ANCIENT POTTERY. Graeeo-Phenician period. Egyptian subject painting on vases had beenconfined to a few rude outlines, chiefly of funereal or mythological scenesof the character in the ilhistration (9) on page 36. Wherever the Greeks found this idea, they now began for…
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