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Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)

Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 24

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Fig. 4.— Vase of the Bronze Age. The Lacustrine Dwellings of the Stone Age have given up a fewtraces of men. The remains of lake-dwellers have been found mostlyin Switzerland, but somewhat in Ireland and Scotland. These reveal apeople who built their huts for safety upon piles or upon fascines… … Fig. 5.—Bronze Aye. of bone, and some of bronze. Among these, which pertain to our subject,are a few pots of clay, which have survived the gnawing tooth of Time. In Figs. 1 and 2 are to be seen two of these. They are coarse andclumsy, and are of blackish-gray clay, hardened in the sun or in…

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