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Roman and medieval art (1893)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 80

An illustration from Roman and medieval art, 1893, leaf 80
-pire, was the so-called^^Samian (aside fromthe coarser and ordi-nary ware). ThisSamian ware is of afine red paste decorated with molded or pressed designs,but it has no great artistic value. The use of the finer early Greek pottery was displacedlargely by glass, which was not very familiar to… … Fig. 41.—Pompeiian Bronze Lamps.Naples Museum. 68 KOMAX AXD MEDIEVAL AET. throughout the time of the empire and even in theearly Middle Ages. Glass manufacture was independ-ently cultivated in all territories of the empire also,and its forms and colors rival those of the modernVenetian glass, which…

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