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ADVERTISEMENT.
The first volume of this work was published in 1851. In
the Advertisement prefixed to that volume, it is stated that
" the work will be completed in a second volume, which will
contain the Vases of a later period, chiefly from the south of
Italy, and the Vases of all ages from Greece proper." The
publication of the second volume having been delayed by
various causes till the present date, it has been found neces-
sary to modify the original plan of the work on account of
the large accessions which have been made to the Collection
in the interim. These accessions are the bequest of Sir
William Temple, the purchase of the Blacas Museum, and
the acquisitions made through excavations at Camirus and
Ialysus, in the island of Rhodes. Among these later acces-
sions are many Vases of the Earlier Period, which would
have consequently been described in the first volume had they
been acquired previously to its publication. As the insertion
of these earlier Vases in their proper place in the General
Catalogue is now impossible, it has been thought most con-
venient to reserve the collections to which they belong for a
third or supplementary volume. The plan of the Catalogue
is, therefore, as follows:—The present volume contains
those Vases o'f the old Collection which belong to the Later
Period, from about the time of Alexander the Great to
the time when Greek Fictile Art appears to have ceased,
The first volume of this work was published in 1851. In
the Advertisement prefixed to that volume, it is stated that
" the work will be completed in a second volume, which will
contain the Vases of a later period, chiefly from the south of
Italy, and the Vases of all ages from Greece proper." The
publication of the second volume having been delayed by
various causes till the present date, it has been found neces-
sary to modify the original plan of the work on account of
the large accessions which have been made to the Collection
in the interim. These accessions are the bequest of Sir
William Temple, the purchase of the Blacas Museum, and
the acquisitions made through excavations at Camirus and
Ialysus, in the island of Rhodes. Among these later acces-
sions are many Vases of the Earlier Period, which would
have consequently been described in the first volume had they
been acquired previously to its publication. As the insertion
of these earlier Vases in their proper place in the General
Catalogue is now impossible, it has been thought most con-
venient to reserve the collections to which they belong for a
third or supplementary volume. The plan of the Catalogue
is, therefore, as follows:—The present volume contains
those Vases o'f the old Collection which belong to the Later
Period, from about the time of Alexander the Great to
the time when Greek Fictile Art appears to have ceased,