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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 31

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e is a connection between the creator and the work produced, andthis connection has sufficed to raise an obscure insect to the rank ofthe most eloquent of symbols; it represent Phtha himself, the creatorof the stars: he who has developed the fruitful thought of the supremegod. Under the name of… … SACRED SCARABSEUS. ornament; and it becomes the symbol of the eternal revival of the sun,which each morning, having overcome darkness and evil, reappears EGYPT. 5 radiant in the eastern horizon; thus the soul, purified by the passagethrough death, will be reborn to shine for ever in life eternal.…

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