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 361
covered with a vitrified coating; this last could, there-fore, be sold at a low price; it offered all the brilliancy of theformer, and its weight alone betrayed its inferiority; by whichmeans, whatever was novel, or pleasing from its external appear- … IMITATION OP REAL 6T0NES. ance, was placed within reach of all classes, or, at least, thepossessor had the satisfaction of seeming to partake in each fash-ionable novelty. Such inventions, and successful endeavors to imitate costlyornaments by humbler materials, not only show the progress ofart…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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