History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER V

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_TECHNICAL PROCESSES_

Nature of clay—Places whence obtained—Hand-made vases—Invention of potter’s wheel—Methods of modelling—Moulded vases and relief- decoration—Baking—Potteries and furnaces—Painted vases and their classification—Black varnish—Methods of painting—Instruments and colours employed—Status of potters in antiquity 202–233