History of Ancient Pottery
History of Ancient Pottery
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GBPThe Egyptologist Samuel Birch (1813–85) began to study Chinese at school, and obtained his first post at the British Museum cataloguing Chinese coins. He maintained his interest in Chinese civilisation throughout his life, but also collaborated with C. T. Newton on a catalogue of Greek and Etruscan vases, and with Sir Henry Rawlinson on cuneiform inscriptions, while also specialising in the examination and cataloguing of the Museum's growing collection of Egyptian papyri and other artefacts. Birch describes this two-volume, highly illustrated work on ancient pottery, published in 1858, as filling a perceived need: 'A work has long been required which should embody the general history of the fictile art of the ancients.' Volume 1 covers the composition and techniques of the pottery of ancient Egypt and Assyria, with notes on Jewish Phoenician wares, and begins an examination of the techniques and art of the Greek ceramicists.
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April 2015Paperback
9781108081900
444 pages
217 × 141 × 28 mm
0.59kg
137 b/w illus. 6 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Egyptian and Oriental Pottery:
- 1. Antiquity of the art
- 2. Glazed ware
- 3. Assyrian pottery
- Part II. Greek Pottery:
- 1. Etymology
- 2. Greek vases
- 3. Glazed vases
- 4. Glazed vases (cont.)
- 5. Glazed vases (cont.)
- 6. Glazed vases (cont.).
