Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 218
that entirebranches of her industry,such as ceramics, wereborrowed. She took pos-session of the variousforms of the Mycenaeanvases, their double lips,their twin bodies, theirhandles, their necks, butshe decorated them byprocesses of her own,notably by covering themwith enamel, that vividblue… … FIG. 385.—BOX FOR COSMETICS(Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsch.) ART IN EGYPT of foreign forms did not prevent her from creating some that werepeculiarly her own. I need only instance those polished saucers,and beautiful cups of blue pottery in the form of lotus-flowers,or those red and green glazed…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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