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 68
GREEK UOUSE. 59 cles, the perfect day of a most remarkable and higlily-a3stlietic civiliza-tion, remains; either its stone-wallfj, or in pictures on its templc-wall.sor on its vases. The great catastrophe which overwhelmed Ilerculaneumand Pompeii has secured to us the means of knowing how the… … Fig. 6\.—Etruscan Vase. been swept away by the besom of war or the feathered wing of Time.We know what we do know from the verses of the poets or the allusionsof the playwrights, and that is all; but from these we gather that thehouse or home was a place rather for the woman than for the man;that…
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