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FIRST VASE ROOV.
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the insides red. Both the red and blue are opaque colours.
Specimens of this polychrome painting are exceedingly rare.
Found by Mr. Burgon at Athens.
No. 159 (Case 57), a very small omoeAoe, on which is
painted in opaque colours, on a lustrous black ground, a
naked boy kneeling forward to reach a fruit placed on a low
table. His hair is painted a light brown, his body white. The
pigments employed are laid on thick, so as to be raised on the
black ground. The Bgure is exquisitely drawn, and most in-
teresting as an example of a style of painting rarely to be
met with in Fictile Art. Found by Mr. Burgon at Athens.
(Engraved, Brondsted, Voyages, 1., p. 129.)
The three vases last described probably belong to a later
period than that of the vases with red figures, previously de-
scribed.
In Cases 59, 60, are a number of with polychrome
figures on a white ground. In this style the figures seem
to have been first drawn in outline and then painted with
opaque pigments. Green, blue, vermilion, and brown, were
among the colours employed. The blue was probably silicate
of copper. Sometimes the figures were only drawn in out-
line, and do not appear to have been completed. Nos. 160,
161 (on Table Cases E and M), are two very One specimens
of this class. No. 160M represents the meeting of Orestes
and Elektra at the tomb of Agamemnon. No. 16lE, the
same group, with the addition of Chrysothemis. This subject
constantly occurs on Athenian of this class. In Cases
59 and 60 may be seen several repetitions of it.
On the omoc7me,No. 162 (Case 60), the figures are drawn
in outline, on a white ground, in a monochrome tint. The
subject is Athene giving a libation to Herakles. Her name
is written retrograde in front of her. These figures are
drawn with remarkable delicacy and precision.
SICILIAN VASES.
The vases in Cases 55-56 were discovered by George
Dennis, Esq., in tombs at Centuripse, Gela, and Agrigentum,
m Sicily. This collection, which was presented to the British
Museum in 1863 by Earl Russell, consists chiefly of A/ryt/i:',
with red figures on a black ground, but also contains several
specimens of that polychrome style which has been already
noticed in describing the later Athenian vases.
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the insides red. Both the red and blue are opaque colours.
Specimens of this polychrome painting are exceedingly rare.
Found by Mr. Burgon at Athens.
No. 159 (Case 57), a very small omoeAoe, on which is
painted in opaque colours, on a lustrous black ground, a
naked boy kneeling forward to reach a fruit placed on a low
table. His hair is painted a light brown, his body white. The
pigments employed are laid on thick, so as to be raised on the
black ground. The Bgure is exquisitely drawn, and most in-
teresting as an example of a style of painting rarely to be
met with in Fictile Art. Found by Mr. Burgon at Athens.
(Engraved, Brondsted, Voyages, 1., p. 129.)
The three vases last described probably belong to a later
period than that of the vases with red figures, previously de-
scribed.
In Cases 59, 60, are a number of with polychrome
figures on a white ground. In this style the figures seem
to have been first drawn in outline and then painted with
opaque pigments. Green, blue, vermilion, and brown, were
among the colours employed. The blue was probably silicate
of copper. Sometimes the figures were only drawn in out-
line, and do not appear to have been completed. Nos. 160,
161 (on Table Cases E and M), are two very One specimens
of this class. No. 160M represents the meeting of Orestes
and Elektra at the tomb of Agamemnon. No. 16lE, the
same group, with the addition of Chrysothemis. This subject
constantly occurs on Athenian of this class. In Cases
59 and 60 may be seen several repetitions of it.
On the omoc7me,No. 162 (Case 60), the figures are drawn
in outline, on a white ground, in a monochrome tint. The
subject is Athene giving a libation to Herakles. Her name
is written retrograde in front of her. These figures are
drawn with remarkable delicacy and precision.
SICILIAN VASES.
The vases in Cases 55-56 were discovered by George
Dennis, Esq., in tombs at Centuripse, Gela, and Agrigentum,
m Sicily. This collection, which was presented to the British
Museum in 1863 by Earl Russell, consists chiefly of A/ryt/i:',
with red figures on a black ground, but also contains several
specimens of that polychrome style which has been already
noticed in describing the later Athenian vases.