. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. es in use were oil-jars (lecijthoi),water-pails (Jujdrio), wine-vases {crateres), wine-jugs(anochoa), and amphorcK. They seem to have con-tinued in use till about 450 or 420 b. c, when the redfigures were substituted for black, by tracing, asbefore, the figures on the clay, then running roundthem a thick line of flock, and finally filling up thebackground entirely with black colour—the musclesand inner marking not being incised, but traced inblack and brown outlines. The earlier vases ofthis class, which are of the
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. es in use were oil-jars (lecijthoi),water-pails (Jujdrio), wine-vases {crateres), wine-jugs(anochoa), and amphorcK. They seem to have con-tinued in use till about 450 or 420 b. c, when the redfigures were substituted for black, by tracing, asbefore, the figures on the clay, then running roundthem a thick line of flock, and finally filling up thebackground entirely with black colour—the musclesand inner marking not being incised, but traced inblack and brown outlines. The earlier vases ofthis class, which are of the strong style, resemblethose of the black figures; but the style graduallyimproved, and resembled the art of Phidias andZeuxis ; while the letters are those in use after thearchonship of Eui-lid, 403 B. C. The style and formof these vases altered according to the art of theperiod, till the ultimate disuse of fictile or paintedware, about 300 B. C, when the conquests of Alex-ander the Great and the increase of luxury causedit to be superseded by vases in metals. In its last. Fig. 4.—Greek Vases of later style, found in Italy. stage, the pottery became mtmlded, and was glazedentirely black, or else variegated with opaque whitefigures and ornaments. The subjects of these latervases differ considerably from the earlier, beingchiefly derived from the theatre or myths of the POTTERY. later poets. Vases of this description are found inGreece, the isles of the Archipelago, and Italy; intowhich latter country they appear to have been im-ported from Greece. In Italy, indeed, the Etruscans, at an earlyperiod, and pcrhnps some of the principal cities inMagna Grtecia, manufactured their own of the Etruscans consists principally of threekinds — an unglazed red ware; a lustrous brownware, made also by the neighbouring Sabines andOscans; and a black ware, the paste or substanceof which is black throughout, not superficial, asamongst the Greeks, and made by mixing somecolourin
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