Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel & Company · leaf 276
lying down ; the two others were standing in the marshes, their bodies being covered by the potter with pen-and-ink sketches of reeds and lotus plants, amid which hover birds and butterflies. This was his naïve way of depicting the animal amid his natural surroundings. The blue is splendid, and we… … Fig. 224. the blue. The other colours before mentioned were in current use for not more than four or five centuries ; that is to say, from the time of Ahmes I. to the time of the Rames- sides. It was then, and only then, that " Ushabti" of white or red glaze, rosettes and lotus flowers in yellow,…
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