A Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

This 1897 book was written to provide archaeologists and visitors with a guide to Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Ernest Arthur Gardner (Author)

9781107638075, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

180 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1 cm, 0.26 kg

Originally published in 1897, this book was written to provide both archaeologists and visitors with an accessible guide to Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum: 'to publish and make accessible to archaeologists a record of the vases it contains, and to assist the visitor, and more especially the student in observing the history and technique of Greek vase-painting'. The text contains illustrations of every vase in the collection, except those that reproduce well-known and common types; these illustrations replace lengthy description and allow for easy identification of subject and style. This is a beautifully presented book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, archaeology and Greek vases.

Preface
Introduction
1. Primitive island pottery
2. Mycenaean pottery
3. Geometrical style
4. So-called Proto-Corinthian'
5. Ordinary 'Corinthian ware'
6. Rhodian pottery
7. Black-figured vases, design and ornament covering whole surface of vase
8. Black-figured vases, hydriae and amphorae, with design in panel
9. Cylices - black figured
10. Red-figured cylices
11. Lecythi, black-figured on red ground
12. Lecythi, outline and polychrome painting on white ground
13. Alabastra, with white ground
14. Lecythi, with red figures
15. Oval-bodied lecythi
16. Miniature jugs, probably toys
17. Oenochoae
18. Nolan amphorae
19. Pyxis, red figured
20. Oval lecythi, plain
21. Various
22. Vases without figures, mostly covered with black varnish
23. Black wares, with ornamentation in white or other pigments over black
24. Moulded bowls, megara class
25. Vases with impressed patterns
26. Vases from Italy, Sicily, &c.
27. Sardinian
28. Italy
29. Early Italian
30. South Italian vases, red-figured
31. Vases, with white or coloured ornamentation over black ground
32. Table case: fragments from Naucratis
Indices: I. Artists' signatures
II. Other painted inscriptions
III. Inscriptions referring to figures
IV. Graffiti
V. Subjects represented.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK]