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The principles of Greek art (1914)

Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 241

An illustration from The principles of Greek art, 1914, leaf 241 — 219 CLASSES OF VASES XIII we need mention but a few typical examples ; for our concern here is not so much with the potter’s art, as with the more ex- … pressive and graphic manifestations of the Hellenic spirit. The chief classes of vases are the amphora, an ornate imita- tion of vessels for storing wine, the krater or mixing vessel (Fig. Fig. 62. — Kylix. 61, b , c), the hydria , with three handles (Fig. 61, a), wherein water was fetched from the…

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