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Ancient Greek pottery, (1898). 'Figs 1-9: Forms of Greek vases. Fig 1: Amphora, vessel for oil, wine etc. Fig 2: Hydria, vessel for carrying water. Fig 3: Urn, a cinerary vessel. Fig 4: Oenochoe, wine-can, pouring-vessel. Fig 5: Cylix, drinking-cup. Fig 6: Deinos, crater, vessel for mixing wine and water. Fig 7: Lecythus, vessel for anointing-oil. Fig 8: Cantharus, two-handled drinking-cup. Fig 9: Rhyton, drinking-vessel. Fig. 10: Female figure on an Amphora in the National Museum at Naples. Figs 11-32: Ornaments on vases in the Museums of Naples, Rome, Munich, Paris and London'. Plate 6 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)