On vases with gilding, see Jahn, _Vasen mit Goldschmuck_ (1865). Footnote 809: Plat. _Theaet._ 147 A, _Rep._ iv. 421 D; Pollux, vii. 163. Footnote 810: Strabo, xv. 717; Pollux, vii. 182. Footnote 811: Schol. _in_ Ar. _Pac._ 1202. Footnote 812: Pollux, vii. 160. Footnote 813: B.M. B 400. Footnote 814: Lucian, _Prom. in Verbis_, 2; cf. Lactantius, _Div. Inst._ ii. 11. Footnote 815: Plutarch, _Apophth. Reg. et Imp._ 176 E. Footnote 816: Cf. _B.M. Cat. of Sculpt._ i. 599; Ross-Meier, _Demen von Attika_, p. 122, No. 67. The persons here mentioned were not necessarily potters. Footnote 817: Boeckh, _C.I.G._ ii. 3485. Footnote 818: Hes. _Op. et Di._ 25: καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει; quoted by Aristotle, _Rhet._ ii. 4, 21, and Plat. _Lys._ 215 C. Euthymides on one of his vases places the boast, “Euphronios never did anything like this.” See for these two artists, Chapter X. Footnote 819: Cf. the vase at Athens described above (p. 218), and the others with representations of potteries. PART II HISTORY OF GREEK VASE-PAINTING CHAPTER VI _PRIMITIVE FABRICS_ Introductory—Cypriote Bronze-Age pottery—Classification—Mycenaean pottery in Cyprus—Graeco-Phoenician fabrics—Shapes and decoration—Hellenic and later vases—Primitive pottery in Greece—Troy—Thera and Cyclades—Crete—Recent discoveries—Mycenaean pottery—Classification and distribution—Centres of fabric—Ethnography and chronology. In the preceding chapters we have given a general _résumé_ of the subject of Greek pottery; we have discussed the sites on which Greek vases have been found, the methods employed in their manufacture, the shapes which they assume, and the uses to which they were put both on earth and in the tombs; and we have now reached perhaps the most important part of the subject, at any rate in the eyes of archaeologists, namely, the history of the rise, development and decadence of painting on Greek vases. It has already been noted (in Chapter I.) that this branch of the study of Greek vases is one that has only been called into existence in comparatively recent times, and that up to the year 1854 or thereabouts all attempts at dating the vases (chiefly of course owing to the poverty of material) were purely empirical and tentative. They were moreover largely combined with fantastic interpretations of the painted designs.