Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers (1914)
Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859- · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel and Co. · leaf 313
286 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. craftsmen when once exercised in this direction wasunbounded, and they adapted everything to theirpurpose—granite, diorite, breccia, pink jade, alabaster, … Fig. 242.—Black-topped pottery. a soft Hmestone adapted for fine work, and a materialeven more easily worked, namely, pottery paintedand glazed. Although the art of modelling, decorating, andfiring pottery was never carried to such perfection POTTERY 287 in Egypt as it was in Greece, it was not for…
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