Rightly recognising that the days of the draughtsman and his decorative figure style were past and gone, the ceramic workshops of the late 4th century, and the Hellenistic, which appeared in several spots of the now decentralized Greek world, more and more gave up the red-figured technique. The great increase of the means of colouring, which is to be assumed for the late painting, the complete suppression of formal tendencies in favour of impressionism did not permit the silhouette style even a subsidiary place. The future belonged to free brush technique, that which painted in black, and that which had a black ground (pp. 110 and 157). The figured world, the representations, no longer play any part; the Hellenistic painters prefer to put on their elegant, often playfully treated vases tendrils, festoons, hanging branches and fillets, wreathes and masks in loose arrangement. With these products of the mere craftsman, which are often of fascinating effect (cp. Fig. 160), but often in shape and decoration cause one to miss the delicate taste of earlier times, ends the history of Greek vase-painting; by pottery with relief ornament (already heralded by the completely black channelled vases of the 4th century and works like the aryballos of Xenophantos), which now gains ground more and more, painted pottery is completely driven off the field. NOTE Thanks are due to Messrs. F. Bruckmann, of Munich, for permission to reproduce several drawings from Furtwängler-Reichhold, _Griechische Vasenmalerei_. INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE I. Interior of a kylix signed by Euphronios as potter: from Caere; Paris, Louvre, G 104. Diameter 0,39. From _Furtwängler-Reichhold_ 5. _Frontispiece_ CHAPTER I.: THE STONE AND BRONZE AGES:-- Pl. II. Fig. 1. Bowl from Sesklo: Athens. Height 0,20. Dark painting on lemon-coloured ground. From Tsountas, _Dimini and Sesklo_ (Greek), pl. 22 Fig. 2. Face-urn from Troy II.-V.: Berlin. Height 0,30. From _British School_ yellowish clay. From _H. Schliemann’s Sammlung Trojanischer Altertümer, Hubert Schmidt_, _No._ 1,080 and 1,084....._To face page 2_ Pl. III. Fig. 3. Beaked jug from Syros: Athens, Nicole 123. Height 0,16. Light-brown painting on yellow ground. From _Ephemeris Arch._ 1899, pl. 10. No. 8 Fig. 4. Beaked jug from the sixth shaft-grave at Mycenae: Athens, Nicole 189. Height 0,30. Turned on the wheel, polished, lustreless brown (and red) painting. From Furtwängler and Löschcke, _Mykenische Tongefässe_, pl. IX. No. 44......4 Pl. IV. Fig. 5. Vase of Kamares style from the palace of Knossos: Candia. Height, 0,22. Painting white, orange and carmine-red on black glaze. From _British School Annual_ IX, p. 120. Fig. 6. Unpainted kylix with yellow smoothed surface, from the fourth shaft-grave at Mycenae: Athens, Nicole 164. Diameter 0,12. From Furtwängler and Löschcke, _Mykenische Tongefässe_, pl. V. No. 22.....6