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 POTTEKV. 375 Aigina.. and Athens. They are comparatively rare in comparison with the countless potsherds of lustrous ware representing a later style of pottery. With the introduction of new processes ceramic art acquired a development which was at once rapid and ex- tensive. Forms and shapes became more gorgeous, varied, and interesting. As far as we can see, there is nothing in the terra-cottas we have passed in review which greatly differs from the fragments Fwi. 456.— Pilcher from lalysm. Height, 195 c. collected by us in Asia and Egypt.' The decorations on the vases of apparently /Egean fabric offer greater variety than on the scanty terra-cotta fragments that reach us from Anterior Asia. In both instances, however, the colours employed are always dull, and the mode of applying them is precisely the same. A great improvement became apparent in the external aspect of the vases with the introduction of a glaze ; this, on being fired, imparted greater splendour to the tone of the ground and of the painted figures. This style of pottery was not perfected in a day, nor ' History of Art.