Word: glaze
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more specimens which we possess, we can trace the progress of art from the stiff archaic types up to the highest perfection. There are two color schemes: the earlier consisted of black figures on the red surface of the vase, and later, the vase was covered with a black glaze upon which the figures were incised so that the lines were in red. The date of manufacture can be determined with considerable accuracy by the form of the letters in the inscriptions. The subjects were taken mostly from the Homeric poems and also from other similar epics which...