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 310
skill in order to s hit 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. 298 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…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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