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 49
vases extant have lain for centuries underground; tiieyhave lost the freshness and fineness of tlicir ])()lisli; their coloring isoften defaced; they are, perhaps, scratched or chipped. Seeing theserather dilapidated examples of the fictile art with eyes of extravagant 40 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.… … i^c. 8«.—Amj)/i(>ra. Ab to the age of the Greek vases there are some evidences. The(Jreek poet Pindar, wlio lived between 520 and 440 u. c, describes thearapliorae, those painted vases which wei-e given as prizes at the Pana- THE VARIOUS STYLES. 41 thenaic festivals (see Fig. 36), and tbey are…
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