Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 310
eat 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 fancy of the potter fashioned it into the head of a pig, astag, or any other animal. One in the Neapolitan… … DRINKING VESSEL. 2o8 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. The learned seem to have been generally mistaken on thesubject of glass-making among the ancients, who appear to havebeen far more skillful than had been imagined. The vast col-lection of bottles, vases, glasses, and other utensils, discoveredat Pompeii, is…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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