ANCIENT POTTERY.--Birch's "History of Ancient Pottery" treats of Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Celtic, Teutonic, and Scandinavian pottery, and is fully illustrated. It contains also a list of the principal collections of ancient pottery. One of the best works is Millingen's "Ancient Unedited Monuments," giving excellent colored illustrations of painted Greek vases. Other valuable works are those of Inghirami, "Pitture di Vasi Etrusche," four volumes quarto, with fine outlines of Greek vase-decoration, some in color; a very beautifully-illustrated work (in color) is that of the Count of Syracuse, "Notizia dei Vasi dipinti rinvenuti a Cuma;" see also Lucien Bonaparte's "Museum Étrusque;" Donati, "Della Maniera d'interpretare le Pitture ne' Vasi fittili antichi;" "Description of the Ancient Terra-Cottas in the British Museum," illustrated by line-engravings; Stackelberg, "Die Gräber der Hellenen," giving plates of urns, vases, bass-reliefs, etc.; Dumont, "Inscriptions Céramiques de Grèce;" Fabroni, "Vasi fittili aretini;" Kramer, "Ueber den Styl und die Herkunft der bemalten griechischen Thongefässe;" De Sanctis, "Vasi antichi della Collezione Hamilton," with outline illustrations; G. Gerhard, "Vases Grecs relatifs aux Mystères," outline illustrations; Gerhard, "Etruskische und kampanische Vasenbilder" (Berlin, 1843), with finely-colored illustrations of vases; Gerhard, "Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder" (Berlin, 1856), two volumes text, two volumes plates, quarto, also admirably illustrated; Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, part iii., "Fictile Vases;" Schliemann, "Trojanische Alterthümer;" "British Museum Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases," with outlines; "Catalogue of the St. Petersburg Imperial Collection of Vases in the Ermitage," with sixteen plates of outlines; Inghirami, "Etrusco Museo Chinsino," copperplate outlines; "Engravings of Ancient Vases in the Collection of Sir William Hamilton" (Naples, 1791), three volumes folio. On Egyptian pottery consult Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians;" and the splendid illustrated volumes of Champollion, Lepsius, and Belzoni, for illustrations from the monuments. BIOGRAPHY.--Jouveaux, "Histoire de trois Potiers Celèbres," biographical sketches of Palissy, Wedgwood, and Böttger; "Lessons from Noble Lives" (Palissy); see C. C. Perkins's "Tuscan Sculptors," volume i., for a chapter on "Luca della Robbia," also in Vasari; Vasari, volume xiii., page 72, "Vita di Battista Franco." For a list of books of reference on "ceramics," see Chaffers's "Marks and Monograms." INDEX. A PAGE Abbey, Richard, Potter, 312 Abderrahman III., 83 African Pottery, 65 Alabastron, 47 _A la corne_, 146 Alchemists, The, 230 Alcora Porcelain, 287 Alexander Severus, Emperor, 172 Alhambra, The, 83