Croyden, to tell us some more
about Greek pottery?"
"Greek pottery? Bless my heart! I thought you had forgotten all about
that."
"So I had when I was fishing," confessed Theo honestly. "But I have
remembered it again now."
"You are a frank youngster," laughed Mr. Croyden. "Well, let me
see. You know the making of pottery was a fine art among the
Greeks. They made two kinds--neither of them glazed, of course,
because at that time nobody knew how to glaze pottery. The first kind
was a pottery of red clay on which were placed decorations of black
pigment; the other was a pottery on which they painted figures in red,
afterward filling in the background around them with black. These two
varieties of ware are briefly known as black on red, and red on
black. The black portion of this pottery possessed a wonderful polish
which came from the black pigment mixed with the clay; the red part,
on the contrary, had no lustre, evidently being smoothed and polished
with some hard tool after the vase was finished. These vases were
very beautiful in form and design, no two of them being alike. Each
was made by an individual artist who pleased himself as to the
arrangement of the birds, animals, and gracefully draped figures
with which he decorated it.
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