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INTRODUCTION
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ornament. Such a wealth of devices can best be
explained by assuming that a naturally imitative
people whose pottery had hitherto been of a simple
type had suddenly been influenced by an inrush of
a great variety of imported models both in clay
and in metals.
It has already been implied that Italic potters had
complete control of the ventilation of their kilns.
They were able by varying the draught to produce
vases with a black, a grey, a red, or a mottled sur-
face, and also vases, fired at a low temperature,
with a black core. An early example of such com-
pletely reduced fabric is No. 13 from Vulci 66,
PI. XLV. This technique which seems to have been
perfected in the second quarter of the seventh
century, is, of course, the technique of bucchero
vases; and the hatched triangles executed in rope
pattern, such as occur on No. 6 from Narce 71 M,
PI. VII, and No. 9 from Vulci 42 F, PI. XLIX may
well be the precursors of the dotted fans of buc-
chero ware.
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ornament. Such a wealth of devices can best be
explained by assuming that a naturally imitative
people whose pottery had hitherto been of a simple
type had suddenly been influenced by an inrush of
a great variety of imported models both in clay
and in metals.
It has already been implied that Italic potters had
complete control of the ventilation of their kilns.
They were able by varying the draught to produce
vases with a black, a grey, a red, or a mottled sur-
face, and also vases, fired at a low temperature,
with a black core. An early example of such com-
pletely reduced fabric is No. 13 from Vulci 66,
PI. XLV. This technique which seems to have been
perfected in the second quarter of the seventh
century, is, of course, the technique of bucchero
vases; and the hatched triangles executed in rope
pattern, such as occur on No. 6 from Narce 71 M,
PI. VII, and No. 9 from Vulci 42 F, PI. XLIX may
well be the precursors of the dotted fans of buc-
chero ware.