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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 40

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Jiiuch smaller and lessS])lendid than this. It is a curious fact to know that most of what remains to us of theliving (ireeks and Egyptians has l)een saved for us by the dead. Nota complete house of the living exists; while those of the dead have beenunearthed not only in Greece, Init in i)arts of… … Fig. iS.—Effi/ptian Bottle, Side and Front View. and the Eonians honored their dead. Let them have our thanks; for,because of that, tilings of interest and beauty are loft to us. In their tombs have been found gold-work, jewels, manuscripts,vases: all of which tell their stories of the way men…

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