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  • Marlene was dressed in pajamas made of heavy black-figured silk and a soft-looking tan robe, neither of which he recalled seeing before.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • Marlene was dressed in pajamas made of heavy black-figured silk and a soft-looking tan robe, neither of which he recalled seeing before.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • Marlene was dressed in pajamas made of heavy black-figured silk and a soft-looking tan robe, neither of which he recalled seeing before.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • Early Greek painting is known mainly from decorated pottery: red-figured vases replaced black-figured c.

    3. The Archaic Period, 800-510 B.C.E 2001

  • A black-figured terra cotta vase of about 600 B.C.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • No. 3419, is a black-figured amphora which repeats the same scene.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • The red-figured and black-figured styles coexisted for perhaps half a century, but the new style ultimately drove the old one out of the market.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • The black-figured ware continued to be produced in Attica through the sixth century and on into the fifth.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • It is an early specimen of the class of black-figured vases, as they are called.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • "Very true, for a period of time," said Miss Parrott throwing her black-figured lace veil, worn by her mother before her, away from her face.

    Five Little Peppers and their Friends Margaret Sidney 1884

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