Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 320
t skill in order tohit the mark exactly. Sometimes the holeat the tip was closed, and one or two handles fitted to the side,and then the base formed the mouth; and sometimes the whim-sical fancv of the potter fashioned it into the head of a pig, astag, or any other animal. One in the Neapolitan… … DRINKING VESSEL. 298 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. The learned seem to have been generally mistaken on thesubject of glass-making among the ancients, who appear to havebeen tar more skilltul than had been imagined. The vast col-lection ot* bottles, vases, glasses, and other utensils, discoveredat Pompeii, is…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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