History of Ancient Pottery: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and RomanJ. Murray, 1873 - 644 Seiten |
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Seite 526 - They were first carefully loose-packed with the articles to be fired, up to the height of the side walls. The circumference of the bulk was then gradually diminished, and finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, an attendant seems to have followed the packer and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat on the grass upon the vessels ; he then placed more grass on the edge of the clay just laid...
Seite 3 - Pergamus adopted parchment, and the other nations of the ancient world chiefly depended on a supply of the paper of Egypt. But the Assyrians and Babylonians employed for their public archives, their astronomical computations, their religious dedications, their historical annals, and even for title-deeds and bills of exchange, tablets, cylinders, and hexagonal prisms of terra-cotta. Two of these cylinders, still extant, contain the history of the...
Seite 153 - Collection of engravings from ancient Vases mostly of pure Greek workmanship discovered in sepulchres in the Kingdom of the two Sicilies, but chiefly in the neighbourhood of Naples...
Seite 149 - Greece, the graves are generally small, being designed for single corpses, which accounts for the comparatively small size of the vases discovered in that country. At Athens, the earlier graves are sunk deepest in the soil, and those at Corinth, especially such as contain the early Corinthian vases, are found by boring to a depth of several feet beneath the surface. The early tombs of Civita Vecchia and...
Seite 525 - It is formed of perforated angular bricks, meeting at one point in the centre. The furnace is arched with bricks moulded for the purpose. The side of the kiln is constructed with curved bricks set edgeways in a thick slip* of the same material to the height of two feet.
Seite 4 - The employment of copper to produce a brilliant blue coloured enamel was very early, both in Babylonia and Assyria ; but the use of tin for a white enamel, as recently discovered in the enamelled bricks and vases of Babylonia and Assyria, anticipated, by many centuries, the re-discovery of that process in Europe in the fifteenth century...
Seite 203 - The ornaments are in white, and so are the letters. The figures have lost that hardness which at first characterised them ; the eyes are no longer represented oblique and in profile ; the extremities are finished with greater care, the chin and nose are more rounded, and have lost the extreme elongation of the earlier school.
Seite 47 - more easily stamped into moulds. The reason why the " Egyptians used this kind of paste appears to have been that " their argillaceous clays would not combine with their " silicious glazes. When the object had assumed the intended " shape, the glaze was laid on. It was composed of silica, " probably a finely ground or triturated sand, and soda, to " which was added certain metallic oxides to produce the
Seite 506 - Lamps were manufactured by means of moulds, which were modelled from a pattern lamp, in a harder and finer clay than the squeeze or pattern. The latter was divided into two parts, adjusted by mortices and tenons, the lower part forming the body of the lamp, the upper the decorated superficies. The clay was pressed in with the fingers by a potter Called No.
Seite 172 - ... the opposite side. The drawing was done entirely by the hand and no pattern used. The outlines round the figures on RF vases were drawn strongly, in the manner described above, to prevent the background encroaching on the figure. That this was done while the clay was moist appears by the outlines uniting, which could not have taken place if the clay had been dry. It was so difficult to fill in the outlines without alteration, that they were frequently changed, and sometimes the ground was not...