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History of ancient pottery (1858)

Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : J. Murray · leaf 384

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GREEK POTTERY. 280 the back-ground was painted in by an ordinary workman. Some specimens exist in which it has never been laid on. The artists seem to have worked from slight sketches, and according to their individual feelings and ideas ; and as there are hardly two vases exactly alike, it is… … No. 133. — Cylix, with. Gorgon and eyes. The figures, on the earliest vases of this style, so closely resemble the black figures, that some have supposed that the two styles co-existed, which indeed appears to be the case in some examples. Some of the vase-painters, indeed, as Pheidippos and…

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