Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 218
before, and 87after, our era. The earliest authentic record Mr. Med-hurst, the eminent Chinese scholar, could find, is in a poemdated B.C. 175 to 151, and this relates to the green porce-lain. Champollion, Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, and others,indeed, supported the native claims for a higher… … Small Chinese bottles found in Egyptian tombs. (Marryaf) as the problem thus presented for solution may be, thelettering on these little bottles proves them to be modern,comparatively to the tombs in which they were found.The form of the letters is that of a late alphabet, and thewords themselves…
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