This use of white gives a great delicacy and refinement to the coloring, which is saved by it, even where the hues are the strongest, from being coarse or vulgar.
The drawing of the designs resembles that of the sculptures except that the figures are generally slimmer and less muscular.

The chief peculiarity is the strength of the outline, which is almost always colored differently from the object drawn, either white, black, yellow, or brown.

Generally it is of a uniform thickness (as in No.

I., [PLATE LXXIX., Fig.

2]), sometimes, though rarely, it has that variety which characterizes good drawing (as in No.II., [PLATE LXXIX Fig.