A Catalogue of the Most Magnificent Collection of Greek Vases, Ever Brought to this Country: The Entire Property of an English Gentleman, Lately Returned from His Travels in Graecia Propria; the Whole Having Been the Result of Excavations Made at His Expense; and Under His Personal Observation: which Will be Sold by Auction, by King and Lochée, at Their Great Room, No. 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on Tuesday, the 23d Day of May, 1815, and Following Day, at Twelve O'clock, Hluti 2W. Smith and Company, 1815 - 36 síður |
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24 inches 9 inches altar Antients Aristophanes ATHENIAN Athens black varnish CERES Chinese tea-pot chres circumference curious Ditto ditto drapery elegant Pitcher Eumenid exhibited facing the symbol female head fragments front Glass Lachrymatory Grecian bronze Grecian sepulchres Grecian Soros Grecian Sphinx Grecian tombs handle wanting height 24 height 4 inches Height 9 horizontal handles horizontally figured horizontally striped inches high incrustation ivy wreaths Lachrymatory Phials lip and handle Lotus ornament nitric acid ornamented with ivy painting perfectly entire pictured Libatory Vessel pictured Pitcher pictured Vase plain black Priestess bearing repre represents a Priestess represents a winged Small Libatory Vessel small Patera small Vessels smaller ditto Spondophori Subject represents symbol of humid Tall upright pictured terra cotta Tetradrachm Three ditto triple lip upright pictured Libatory upright pictured Vessel Upright Vessel vermillion cinctures vermillion colour vermillion robes vertically fluted Vessel of Libation Volute votive Cup wants the lip white ground winged genius
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Síða 7 - Pictures, representing the Arts, the Mythology, the Religious Ceremonies, and the Habits, of the ATHENIANS, in the earliest periods of their History.