American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 100
to an ex-amination with a lens. A chemical analysis of the clays mightpossibly give a clue, but this has not been made. The frontpart of the statuette has the appearance of having been cast ina mould made by pressing an original Egyptian specimen inplaster, face down, while the back of the figure… … 8o AMERICAN ART eyes and mouth have been touched or lined with what seem to be lead-pencil marks. In theillustration, which exhibits simply the form of the figure, these marks are not shown. The fresh-ness of the surface of the object tells, perhaps, more than anything else, against its antiquity.…
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