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  2. Gorham Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant asked Gorham to commemorate the country's one-hundredth anniversary with a spectacular Century Vase that contained over 2,000 oz (57,000 g) of sterling silver, and in 1899, it produced a grand "loving cup" composed of 70,000 dimes was designed for Admiral George Dewey. Colonel Henry Jewett Furber, president of Universal ...

  3. Ancient Greek funerary vases - Wikipedia

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    Every-day vases were often not painted, but wealthy Greeks could afford luxuriously painted ones. Funerary vases on male graves might have themes of military prowess, or athletics. However, allusions to death in Greek tragedies was a popular motif. Famous centers of vase styles include Corinth, Lakonia, Ionia, South Italy, and Athens. [1]

  4. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The fragments of these large funerary vases show mainly processions of chariots or warriors or of the funerary scenes: πρόθεσις (prothesis; exposure and lamentation of dead) or ἐκφορά (ekphora; transport of the coffin to the cemetery). The bodies are represented in a geometrical way except for the calves, which are rather ...

  5. Dipylon Amphora - Wikipedia

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    The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Discovered at the Dipylon cemetery, this stylistic vessel belonging to the Geometric period is credited to an unknown artist

  6. Dipylon Master - Wikipedia

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    The Dipylon Master was an ancient Greek vase painter who was active from around 760–750 BC. He worked in Athens, where he and his workshop produced large funerary vessels for those interred in the Dipylon Gate cemetery, whence his name comes. His work belongs to the very late stage of the Geometric Style.

  7. Urn - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Roman urn made of alabaster. An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin.

  8. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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    Examples of these are the columbaria in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and Golders Green Crematorium in London. In other cases, columbaria are built into church structures. One example is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles, California), which houses a number of columbarium niches in the mausoleum built into the lower levels ...

  9. Grave Stele of Hegeso - Wikipedia

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    The characters are noble and beautiful, but absorbed without affection for the object at which they direct their gaze (presumably a piece of jewelry). However, Buitron-Oliver [ 7 ] notes that the highly idealized figures on the Parthenon frieze gave way to more realistic drapery around 400 BCE, as seen in the Hegeso relief.

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