CHAPTER XI

_WHITE-GROUND AND LATER FABRICS_

Origin and character of white-ground painting—Outline drawing and polychromy—Funeral lekythi—Subjects and types—Decadence of Greek vase-painting—Rise of new centres—Kertch, Cyrenaica, and Southern Italy—Characteristics of the latter fabrics—Shapes—Draughtsmanship—Influence of Tragedy and Comedy—Subjects—Paestum fabric—Lucanian, Campanian, and Apulian fabrics—Gnathia vases—Vases modelled in form of figures—Imitations of metal—Vases with reliefs—“Megarian” bowls—Bolsena ware and Calene phialae 454–504

LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I

(_Except where otherwise noted the objects are in the British Museum_)

PLATE

I. Kylix signed by Duris: Labours of Theseus (_colours_) Frontispiece

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II. Archaic terracotta antefixes 98

III. Restoration of temple at Civita Lavinia 100

IV. Greek lamps and “brazier-handles” 106

V. Moulds for terracotta figures 114

VI. Terracotta vases from Southern Italy 118

VII. “Melian” reliefs 120

VIII. Archaic terracotta figures 122

IX. Terracotta figures of fine style 124

X. Porcelain and enamelled wares 128

XI. Cypriote Bronze-Age pottery 242

XII. Mycenaean vases found in Cyprus 246

XIII. Cypriote “Graeco-Phoenician” pottery 252

XIV. Example of Kamaraes ware from Palaiokastro, Crete (from _Brit. School Annual_) 266

XV. Mycenaean vases (_colours_) 272

XVI. Subjects from the Aristonoös krater in the Vatican (from _Wiener Vorl._) 296

XVII. Phaleron, Boeotian, and Photo-Corinthian vases 300

XVIII. Melian amphora in Athens (from Conze) 302

XIX. Proto-Corinthian and Early Corinthian vases 308

XX. Corinthian pyxis and Rhodian oinochoë (_colours_) 312

XXI. Later Corinthian vases with figure subjects 316

XXII. Chalcidian vase in Bibl. Nat., Paris: Herakles and Geryon; chariot 320

XXIII. “Tyrrhenian” Amphora: The death of Polyxena 324

XXIV. Rhodian and Naucratite wares 336

XXV. Situla from Daphnae; later Ionic vase in South Kensington 352

XXVI. Caeretan hydria (_colours_) 354

XXVII. Painted sarcophagus from Clazomenae 364

XXVIII. The François vase in Florence, general view (from Furtwaengler and Reichhold, _Gr. Vasenm._) 370

XXIX. Attic black-figured amphorae 380

XXX. Vases by Nikosthenes 384

XXXI. Obverse of vase by Andokides: Warriors playing draughts (B.F.) 386

XXXII. Reverse of vase by Andokides: Herakles and the Nemean lion (R.F.) 386

XXXIII. Panathenaic amphora, earlier style 388

XXXIV. Panathenaic amphora, later style 390

XXXV. Vases with opaque figures on black ground (Brit. Mus. and Louvre) 394

XXXVI. Red-figured “Nolan” amphorae and lekythos 412

XXXVII. Cups of Epictetan style 422

XXXVIII. Kylix at Munich signed by Euphronios: Herakles and Geryon (from Furtwaengler and Reichhold) 432

XXXIX. Kylikes by Duris at Berlin and in the style of Brygos at Corneto (from Baumeister) 436

XL. Vases signed by Sotades (Brit. Mus. and Boston) 444

XLI. Hydria signed by Meidias 446

XLII. Vases of “late fine” style (_colours_) 448

XLIII. Polychrome white-ground vases (_colours_) 456

XLIV. Campanian and Apulian vases 484

XLV. Apulian sepulchral vase (colours) 486

XLVI. Vases modelled in various forms 492

XLVII. Archaic vase in Athens with reliefs (from Ἐφημερὶς Ἀρχαιολογική) 496

XLVIII. Vases of black ware with reliefs (Hellenistic period) 500

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