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 60
se shown in Fig. 43 is supposed to have been usedfor libations whm sacrifice^ mci-c made to tlie gods. The neck andmouth are pecuiiai. This e.\am])le has a red body covered with a ])lackvaniish, the designs showing the red. The Lekythos is a sort of cylindrical am])hora, willi a straight neck THE… … Fig. 45.—Pot for Infusion. and is painted with colored clays, which are fixed to the body of thevase by heat, and are, therefore, indestructible. A pot for infusion (Fig. 45) is easily understood. It is a Greekancestor to our teapot, and is marked by that elegance of form whichappears in much of…
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