General Character of Greek Ceramics.--Form and Color.--Borrowed from Egypt and Phœnicia.--How Original.--UNBAKED CLAY: Bricks and Statues.--TERRA-COTTA: Where Used.--Tiles.--Models.--Vessels.--Pithos.--Amphora.--Pigments used on Terra-cotta.--Rhyton.--GLAZED WARES: Quality of Glaze.--Paste.--Enumeration and Description of Vessels.--Uses of Vases.--Chronological Arrangement.--Methods of Making Vessels.--Successive Styles of Ornamentation.--Figures.--Earliest Style.--Archaic Style.--Human Figures.--“Old Style.”--Approach to Best Art.--“Fine Style.”--“Florid Style.”--Decline.--Classification according to Subjects Represented on Vases.--Reliefs and Statuettes as Decoration.....219 CHAPTER III. THE IBERIAN PENINSULA. SPAIN: Ancient Pottery.--Valencia the Most Ancient Centre.--The Roman Period.--Arabs.--Valencia under the Moors.--Its Decline.--Malaga the Most Ancient Moorish Settlement.--The Alhambra Vase.--Influence of Christianity.--Majorca.--Azulejos.--Modern Spain.--Porcelain.--Buen Retiro.--Moncloa.--Alcora.--PORTUGAL: Vista Allegre.--Rato.--Caldas.....233 CHAPTER IV. ITALY. Italian Art.--Whence Derived.--Greece and Persia.--Divisions.--Ancient Roman and Etruscan.--Etruria and Greece.--Questions Resulting from Discoveries at Vulci.--Early Connection between Etruria and Greece.--Etruscan Art an Offshoot of Greek.--Examples.--Best of Black Paste.--Why Etruscan Art Declined.--Rome.--Nothing Original.--Its Debt to Etruria and Greece.--Decline of its Art.--Unglazed Pottery and its Divisions.--Glazed Pottery.--Samian Ware.--Aretine.--Terra-cotta.--After Rome fell.--The Renaissance.--Saracenic Influences.--Crusades.--Conquest of Majorca.--Tin Enamel and Metallic Lustre.--Bacini at Pisa.--Lead Glaze.--Majolica Made at Pesaro.--Sgraffiati.--Luca della Robbia.--Sketch of his Life.--His Alleged Discovery.--What he really Accomplished.--Where he Acquired the Secret of Enamel.--His Works.--Bas-Reliefs.--Paintings on the Flat.--His Successors.--Recapitulation of Beginnings of Italian Majolica.--Chaffagiolo.--Siena.--Florence.--Pisa.--Pesaro.--Castel-Durante. --Urbino.--Gubbio and Maestro Giorgio.--Faenza.--Forli, Rimini, and Ravenna.--Venice.--Ferrara.--Deruta.--Naples.--Shape and Color.--Modern Italy.--PORCELAIN: Florence and Earliest Artificial Porcelain.--Theory of Japanese Teaching.--La Doccia.--Venice, and the Question of its First Making European Porcelain.--Le Nove.--Capo di Monte.....240 CHAPTER V. FRANCE.