Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman vases (1893)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 55
simple form ofkiln, which appears to have consisted of little more than abeehive-shaped mound, with a place for the furnace below,and the oven proper in the upper part. One of these, from aCorinthian pinax in Berlin, is shown in figure 4. Althoughit is probable that in the best period of the art… … Figure 4. which would be considered primitive to-day, and that the suc-cess of the firingdepended largelyupon the judg-ment and watch-fulness of the pot-ter. Here again,probably, the per-sonal elementplayed a muchmore importantpart in the manu-facture of vasesthan it usuallydoes in our…
Vases -- Massachusetts Boston · Vases, Greek
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