Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 188
SIXTH I50 ROOM In Case S (bottom shelf, to the right) should be noted two large amphorai with funerary scenes; the mourners are represented as bringing offerings to a tomb, which is in the form of a shrine with a representation of the de- ceased, similar to contemporary marble tombstones (see p.… … FIG. 95. GOLD EARRINGS vascs will show important differences. The black glaze has rarely the same rich, luminous quality; the shapes are no longer borrowed directly from the Athenian repertoire; and above all, the types of the figures, the generally crowded compositions, and the profuse use of…
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