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History of the ceramic art. A descriptive and philosophical study of the pottery of all ages and all nations (1877)

Jacquemart, Albert, 1808-1875, Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Catenacci, H, Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand, 1837-1880 · New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 249

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f which Aristotle speaks whendescribing the peplum made for Aleisthenes of Sybaris: In the upperpart were represented the sacred animals of the Susians, in the lowerthose of the Persians. Cups of precious metal with the same decora-tion have been brought from Citium in Cpyrus, from Agylla,… … AEYBALLOS IN THE ASIATICSTYLE. GREECE. 209 have already explained, the lapse of a century should separate the workstruly Oriental from the Greek imitations. Among the subjects preservedat the Louvre may be instanced the birth of Minerva, Bacchus seated inthe midst of a troop of Mainads, a battle of…

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