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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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-lonies and barbariccountries. In the styleof their paintings the 19°* shrewd Attic men of business tried to hit the taste of their bar-baric customers, not unlike our present manufacturers. The wholetrade was thus monopolised by Greece, a competition existing onlyin those places where local manufacturers worked after Greekpatterns. 36. The technique of antique pottery may be learnt from twogems. The first (Fig. 193) represents an ephebos clad in thechiton, sitting in front of a handsome oven, from the top of whichhe takes by means of two sticks a newly glazed two-handledvessel. The second illustration also shows the interior of apotters workshop (Fig. 194). A nude potter gives the lastpolish to a finished vessel (most likely with a piece of hardleather) ; on a kind of baking oven, closed by a door, stand apitcher and a drinking-bowl for the purpose of drying. Twopictures on vases, published by Jahn (Berichte der kgl.sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissensch., YL, 1854, hist. phil. 01.,
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142 DEVELOPMENT OF VASE-PAINTING. p. 27 etseg.), show, one of them, a potter similarly occupied as ours(Fig. 194); the other, a little less finished in style, the whole interiorof a potters workshop with wheel and oven. Good (yrj KepafjuTts),particularly red, clay, was in demand for superior goods, and of thisthe promontory of Kolias, near Athens, furnished an unlimitedsupply. The potters wheel (Kepafxeios Tpoyps) was in use at avery early period. On it were formed both large and smallvessels; with the^ difference, however, that of the former the foot,neck, and handles were formed separately, and afterwards attached,as was also the case in small vessels with widely curved handles.In order to intensify the red colour the vessel was frequentlyglazed and afterwards dried and burnt on the oven. The outlinesof the figures to be painted on the vase were either cut into thered clay and filled up with a brilliant black varnish, or thesurface itself was covered with the black varnish up to the

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