Pottery and procelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 42
POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. 34 delicacy, the exquisite beauty of line, which yet glorify the fictile art of Greece. Older than the oldest writings of the Hebrews, . older than Homer, is the potter's wheel ; through all history it has been the friend and companion of man ; its products are part of his… … Fig. 81. — The Archaic Feriod. cate, brittle as they are, they have proved more enduring than the Pyramids. Nearly all the pieces of pottery found in Egypt belong to those things which went into the daily uses of life. Most of them are of common clay, with common forms, and rude finish; and they…
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