A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 34
adopted for the same reasons that made clay WOEKS IN TERRA COTTA. 11 convenient for the ordinary vessels of every-day use. So we findcountless numbers of ancient figures of deities, animals, grotesquemonsters, in baked or simply sun-dried clay, all more or lessbarbaric and archaic in style, whether… … Fig. 11.—Bas-eelief. Athexa presiding over the building of a ship. Terra Cotta. great durability in resisting decay. The ancient Egyptians andAssyrians applied a vitreous glaze to terra cotta objects, thusmaking them more decorative and more durable; but theynever carried out this process as it was…
Sculpture, Ancient
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