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Title: Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883
Subjects: Pottery -- History Pottery -- Marks
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Yu:. •2).—Egyptian Vtme. there, and fiom whose pictures we liave dravni much of oiir knowledgeof Greek life, art, manners, and dress. Ill this high time of Aut lay the seeds of corruption and death.The Athenian Greek became critical, retined, weak, luxurious, corruj-tt, BEGINNINGS OF THE GREEK VASE. 33 base; and tlien he went to decay. In some tombs (Fig. 8(») opened inItaly, the body is found lying at length in the middle, and about itstand perfect vases, love-offerings of friends: were they once filled withperfumes upon which the spirit of the dead was wafted away % Weplace liowers in the graves of our lovely ones, and, beautiful as they are,they vanish with the dead. But the Greek vase remains to us after thelapse of two thousand years. When the Greeks—how early—began to fashion their fine work is
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Fio. Z\).-^Tomb found in the Environs of Naples. not surely known ; but pottery of theirs exists dating as far back as 700B. c. Beliind them were the Assyrians and the Egyptians, both nationsgreat in war and great in the arts of peace. The remains we have ofboth show the Egj^ptians to have been the masters, with whom beganthose arts which grew and bore fniit in Assyria and in Greece. Butthe art of the Egyptians seems never to have reached the lightness, the 3 34 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. delicacy, the exquisite beauty of line, which yet glorify the iictile artof Greece. Older than the oldest writings of the Hebrews, older thanHomer, is the potters wheel; through all history it has been the friendand companion of man; its products are part of his daily life; and deli-

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