Vase, Worcester 96 85. Vase, Chinese 99 87. Vase, Ancient Japanese 101 101. Vase, Enamelled, found in Essex 119 105. Vase, Painted Enamel by Pierre Raymond 129 187. Vase, Silver 216 188. Vase, by Adam 216 305. Vases, Decorated German 382 130. Vessel, Etruscan Bronze 163 247. Vessel for Holy-Water 280 14. Virgin and Child, Della Robbia Ware 18 302. “Vitro di Trina,” Venetian 377 135. Votive Crown of King Suinthila 171 40. Wall Decoration, Persian 44 264. Wall Hanging, Silk, Arabian 309 36. Ware, Persian Lustred 40 42. Ware, Rhodian 46 65. Ware, German Stone 75 75. Ware, White Salt-Glazed, Staffordshire 85 241. Ware, Great Bed of, Elizabethan 269 38. Water-bottle, Persian imitated Chinese 42 Porcelain 132. Wine Crater in Silver, Antique Roman 165 182. Wine Fountain 214 239. Wood Panel, Carved, French 267 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. [Illustration] CHAPTER I. POTTERY. In a former volume of this work, under the respective headings, the Pottery of the Prehistoric ages, and of the oldest nations, as Egypt, Assyria, and Phœnicia, has been noticed. The pottery of primitive Greece has also been mentioned, and some illustrations have been given. It is here intended to give a brief outline of the history of Ceramics dating from about the end of the thirteenth century; but to connect this sketch with the notice of Cyprian pottery already given it will be necessary to say something of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman pottery. Greek vases had been found in great quantities in Etruria before they were found in the islands and colonies of Greece, or to any extent in Athens, and from this circumstance they were wrongly supposed to have been of Etruscan workmanship. The Etruscans imported these vases from Greece during the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., many of which had been placed in their tombs, from where they have been exhumed during the last hundred and fifty years.