FLOOR.] 
FIEST VASE EOOM. 
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and 3. Hydrim. The upper vases are ornamented with subjects 
principally relating to the Hydrophoria, or water-drawing ; the lower 
exhibit scenes from the life and labours of Hercules. 
Cases 20-25. Shelves 1—3. Small vases, similar in style to the last, 
consisting of shallow and deep cups ; lehjthi, or oil-bottles ; viasti, in 
the shape of human breasts ; and vessels in the form of heads, legs, &c. 
In 24, 25, is an Etruscan stand or tray for small vases, &c. 
Cases 26-29. Small vases, with black figures on a red ground. 
Case 30. Italian imitations of early Greek vases, chiefly from Vulci. 
Cases 31-41 exhibit a more advanced style of execution, with red 
figures carefully designed on a black and highly-glazed ground. The 
vases belong to the finest period of Greek art, and were chiefly found 
at Nola. 
Cases 42-49. Larger vases of the kind just mentioned. On Shelf 2 
are chiefly Crateres and Ampliora, on Shelf 3, Hydria;. 
II. VASES rOUXD IN GREECE AND THE GREEK ISLANDS. 
In Cases 50-60 are vases presenting similar varieties to those 
already described, but all found in Greece or the Greek islands. 
They are arranged in an inverse order, so as to bring the earliest in 
juxtaposition to those of similar workmanship found in Italy, and the 
more finished specimens next to those which have just been described. 
Cases 50, 51. Vases with red figures on a black ground; among 
which should be noticed a. .lekythus, representing Venus, Cupid, and 
some allegorical figures ; a 2^yjcis (No. 2923), decorated with Cupids 
and other figures in white and blue ; and a small cenochbe (No. 2933), 
on which is a crawling boy. 
Cases 52, 53. Vases wdth black ornaments on a w^hite ground, and 
polychrome vases, belonging chiefly to the third or fourth century B.C., 
with figures drawn in various colours on a white ground, which repre- 
sent commonly Orestes and Electra at the tomb of Agamemnon. 
Cases 54, 55. Vases, principally lehjtlii, with black subjects on red 
grounds, and vases of ancient st3de from Athens and Corinth, orna- 
mented with birds, &c., in reddish-brown, on a fawn-coloured ground. 
Cases 56-60. Vases of the earliest style, with geometrical orna- 
ments ; in Case 60, eight of the celebrated amjjJiorcB from Corfu 
(Corcyra), whicli contained the wines exported from the Adriatic. 
Ill tlie centre of the room are exhibited select vases with 
paintings on both sides, corresponding generally in arrangement 
with those in the side-cases. 
Over Cases 36-55 are painted fac-similes, by Signer Campanari, of 
the walls of an Etruscan tomb at Tarquinii, decorated with a double 
frieze; in the lower are represented dances and entertainments, and in 
the upper, athletic games, as leaping, running, chariot-racing, hurling the 
discus, boxing, and the armed course ; above is a large vase and two 
persons at an entertainment. The side of entrance of this tomb, 
decollited with two panthers, is represented above the Cases 26-35, and 
the roof, which is chequered^ over Cases 6-25. 
