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Paperback Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery Book

ISBN: 0198150709

ISBN13: 9780198150701

Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery

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This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales...

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