The Craft of Athenian Pottery

About this eBook

Author

Richter, Gisela M. A. (Gisela Marie Augusta), 1882-1972

Title

The Craft of Athenian Pottery An Investigation of the Technique of Black-Figured and Red-Figured Athenian Vases

Credits

E-text prepared by ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament

Subject

Vases, Greek

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63091

Release Date

August 31, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CRAFT OF ATHENIAN POTTERY
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.I. TECHNICAL PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF MODERN POTTERY AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE TECHNIQUE OF ANCIENT VASES — PREPARATION OF THE CLAY — Ingredients and properties. — Washing. — Wedging. — FASHIONING THE VASES — (1) WHEELWORK — (2) BUILDING — (3) MOULDING — FIRING THE VASES — Production of Temperature. — Types of kilns. — Packing the kiln. — Firing. — Number of firings. — Injuries in the firing. — GLAZING — RED OCHRE WASH — WERE ATHENIAN VASES MADE FOR EVERY-DAY USE?
6. 6.II. REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT POTTERS — FASHIONING THE VASES — DECORATING THE VASES — FIRING THE VASES — Representations of potter’s kilns. — MISCELLANEOUS SCENES — REPRESENTATIONS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AS POTTERY SCENES — POTTER’S IMPLEMENTS
7. 7.III. REFERENCES TO THE POTTERY CRAFT IN ANCIENT LITERATURE — PREPARATION OF THE CLAY — FASHIONING THE VASES — (1) WHEELWORK — (2) BUILDING — FIRING THE VASES — RED OCHRE WASH — POROSITY OF GREEK POTTERY — THE STATUS OF POTTERS
8. 8.CONCLUSION — I. THE PREPARATION OF THE CLAY — II. THE FASHIONING OF THE VASE — III. THE DECORATION OF THE VASE — a. Black-figured Technique. — b. Red-figured Technique. — IV. THE FIRING OF THE VASE
9. 9.FOOTNOTES
10. 10.SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
11. 11.INDEX

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