Pottery - techniques and styles
The richest source of visual information about classical art
Pottery - collection and scholarship
Collected and studied from the eighteenth century
Discovering personal styles of draughtsmanship
Pottery - painters and potters
The 'masters' of Greek painted pottery
Gems and cameos - styles and periods
Engraving: an unbroken tradition from antiquity to the present
Collections of gems and cameos - Duke of Marlborough
The 4th Duke had one of the finest personal collections ever assembled
Collections of gems and cameos - Prince Stanislaw Poniatowski
The 19th -century Polish Prince caused a sensation with his collection
Collections of impressions - James Tassie
Tassie’s 18th- century catalogue was compiled for Catherine the Great of Russia
Collections of impressions - P.D. Lippert
Lippert’s 18th-century catalogue was accompanied by three great leather-bound volumes
Sculpture - styles and periods
Greek sculpture was highly regarded in antiquity
A traditional method using piece moulds is still practised today
Plastercasts - history of the Oxford collection
One of the best preserved and best documented collections
People wrote on clay, stone and metal objects long before papyrus
Exacting copying through cameras revolutionised the study of art
Digitising old and rare books
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