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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 184
their ornamental vases, as well as those in ordinary use, wereof the most elegant shape, which would do honor to the Greeks,the Egyptians frequently displaying in these objects of privateluxe the taste of a highly retined people; and so strong a resem-blance did they bear to the productions of the… … EGYPTIAN VASES. sally adopted in the valley of the Nile, long before the gracefulforms we admire were known in Greece; a fact invariably ac-knowledged by those who are acquainted with the remote age ofEgyptian monuments, and of the paintings that represent them. For some of the most elegant date in…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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