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 43
j^ptians to have been the masters, with whom beganthose arts which grew and bore fniit in Assyria and in Greece. Butthe art of the Egyptians seems never to have reached the lightness, the 3 34 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. delicacy, the exquisite beauty of line, which yet glorify the iictile artof Greece.… … FiG. 81.—The Archaic FerioU. cate, brittle as they are, they have proved more enduring than thePyramids. Nearly all the pieces of pottery found in Egypt belong to thosethings which went into the daily uses of life. Most of them are ofcommon clay, with common forms, and rude finish; and they seem…
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