History of Ancient Pottery
by H. B. Walters
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About this eBook
- Author
- Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885
- Title
- History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)
- Credits
- Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Pottery, Ancient
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48154
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48154
- Release Date
- February 7, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
- 4.LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I
- 5.LIST OF TEXT-ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I
- 6.BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT POTTERY — NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK
- 7.PART I GREEK POTTERY IN GENERAL — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY — CHAPTER II SITES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISCOVERY OF GREEK VASES — I. GREECE — II. ASIA MINOR — III. AFRICA — IV. ITALY — CHAPTER III THE USES OF CLAY — CHAPTER IV USES AND SHAPES OF GREEK VASES — CHAPTER V TECHNICAL PROCESSES — 1. Preparation of the Clay — 2. Manufacture of Vases — 3. The Baking of Vases — 4. Painting — 5. Status of Potters
- 8.PART II HISTORY OF GREEK VASE-PAINTING — CHAPTER VI PRIMITIVE FABRICS — § 1. Cypriote Pottery — § 2. Primitive Pottery in Greece — § 3. Crete — § 4. MYCENAEAN POTTERY — CHAPTER VII RISE OF VASE-PAINTING IN GREECE — § 1. The Geometrical Period — § 2. Attica, Boeotia, and Melos — § 3. Corinth — § 4. Chalcidian Vases — §5. “ Tyrrhenian Amphorae ” — CHAPTER VIII VASE-PAINTING IN IONIA — § 1. Rhodes and Asia Minor — § 2. Africa — § 3. Later Ionic Fabrics — § 4. Early Painting in Ionia — CHAPTER IX ATHENIAN BLACK-FIGURED VASES — CHAPTER X RED-FIGURED VASES — CHAPTER XI WHITE-GROUND AND LATER FABRICS — § 1. White-Ground Vases — § 2. The Decadence of Greek Vase-Painting — § 3. Figure-Vases and Vases with Reliefs
- 9.Transcriber’s Note:
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