History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 150
Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Art. 130 clayey chuck or block ; but so long as the potter was without this simple and marvellous instrument, the polisher was indis- Fig. 21. — Mortar and pestle. Basalt and hard calcareous stone. Half size. pensable for correcting defects of modelling, and effacing… … Fig. 22. — Polisher. Hematite. Half size. In those early days the polisher was not applied to pottery ^ The i)olisher was never given up even after the invention of the wheel. “The apparent fineness of the exterior of the vases,” says Birch, “is solely due to the care with which the surface was…
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