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 27
Fiii. J.—Peruvian. examples (Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) none are very bad, and two (Figs. 3 and4), ii not three, are excellent. The pointed bottom appears here as it does in the early forms of the 18 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Greek ampliora; and, as the illustrations show, this involves a necessityfor a… … Fig. W.—A>icii.Ht Jifu. It is certainly no easier to make the pointed than the flat bottom, andit certainly is not so useful. Why, then, was it so common ? I can onlysuppose that when Ji?st made the point was intended to be thrust intothe ground; but the moment they had hit upon the flat bottom,…
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