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History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)

Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · London, J. Murray · leaf 267

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nd on a R.F. fragment from the Acropolis of Athens (Fig. 66),^which shows a man modelling the foot of a large krater, while aboy or slave turns the wheel, as on the Munich vase. On theBritish Museum cup the potter is seated on a low stool, apparentlymodelling a vase which he has just turned into… … HG. 66. potters wheel (from a vase of .about 500 B.C.). the finger and thumb, the potter paying regard not only to theproduction of the right shape, but to the necessary thickness ofthe walls. This process sufficed for the smaller pieces, such ascups or jugs ; the larger amphorae and hydriae…

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