Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 387
delling with the wheel. The patterns used were seldommerely conventional; the work, therefore, required great skill,and there are no good examples of it after the third century.When the designs were cut on the inside of the glass they weresometimes lined with a color, or with gold-leaf, giving the… … of a cylindrical vase of the shape which the Romans calledmiliaria ; it belongs to the early part of the fourth century, andit evidently represented a considerable number of Biblical sub-jects,— the three subjects which are preserved are distinctly original both in selection and execu-tion. The…
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