Origin and character of white-ground painting—Outline drawing and polychromy—Funeral lekythi—Subjects and types—Decadence of Greek vase-painting—Rise of new centres—Kertch, Cyrenaica, and Southern Italy—Characteristics of the latter fabrics—Shapes—Draughtsmanship—Influence of Tragedy and Comedy—Subjects—Paestum fabric—Lucanian, Campanian, and Apulian fabrics—Gnathia vases—Vases modelled in form of figures—Imitations of metal—Vases with reliefs—“Megarian” bowls—Bolsena ware and Calene phialae 454–504 LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I (_Except where otherwise noted the objects are in the British Museum_) PLATE I. Kylix signed by Duris: Labours of Theseus (_colours_) Frontispiece TO FACE PAGE II. Archaic terracotta antefixes 98 III. Restoration of temple at Civita Lavinia 100 IV. Greek lamps and “brazier-handles” 106 V. Moulds for terracotta figures 114 VI. Terracotta vases from Southern Italy 118 VII. “Melian” reliefs 120 VIII. Archaic terracotta figures 122 IX. Terracotta figures of fine style 124 X. Porcelain and enamelled wares 128 XI. Cypriote Bronze-Age pottery 242 XII. Mycenaean vases found in Cyprus 246 XIII. Cypriote “Graeco-Phoenician” pottery 252 XIV. Example of Kamaraes ware from Palaiokastro, Crete (from _Brit. School Annual_) 266 XV. Mycenaean vases (_colours_) 272 XVI. Subjects from the Aristonoös krater in the Vatican (from _Wiener Vorl._) 296 XVII. Phaleron, Boeotian, and Photo-Corinthian vases 300 XVIII. Melian amphora in Athens (from Conze) 302 XIX. Proto-Corinthian and Early Corinthian vases 308 XX. Corinthian pyxis and Rhodian oinochoë (_colours_) 312 XXI. Later Corinthian vases with figure subjects 316 XXII. Chalcidian vase in Bibl. Nat., Paris: Herakles and Geryon; chariot 320 XXIII. “Tyrrhenian” Amphora: The death of Polyxena 324 XXIV. Rhodian and Naucratite wares 336 XXV. Situla from Daphnae; later Ionic vase in South Kensington 352