. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. l collection in the world. 11 It is hardly possible to find within the wholerange of products of human handicraft a moreattractive field of investigation than that offered by aboriginal .American ceramic-, and, probably, noone that affords SUch excellent opportunities forthe Study of e
. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. l collection in the world. 11 It is hardly possible to find within the wholerange of products of human handicraft a moreattractive field of investigation than that offered by aboriginal .American ceramic-, and, probably, noone that affords SUch excellent opportunities forthe Study of early stages in the evolution of art andespecially of the aesthetic in art. The early wareof the Mediterranean Countries has a wider inter-est in many ways, hut does not cover the same ground It represents mainly the stages of culturerising Jibove the level of the wheel, of pictorial art, and of writing, while American pottery 1^entirely below tlii^ level and thus illustrates the substratum out of which the higher phspring/1 Bui the Story IS not confined to elements of the art. Pf may he traced to the very verge of civilization. Between the groups of products ber- longing to the inferior trills, scattered over thecontinent From Point Harrow to Terra del FU(and tho>e representing the advanced culture of. national flbnsenm: GbtrtqnJ potters 26fi Central America and Peru, there i a long vista ofIS. Near the tipper limit of achievement is the pot-tery of Mexico, comprising a wonderful cluster iwell marked groups. Some of the highe I exam*pies of tlu^ ceramic arl arc found in or near theValley of Mexico, and a number of striking vof this region preserved in the Mexican NationalMuseum, may be regarded as masterpieces of Vmer ican fictile art. Central America and South Amer- furnish a series of superb groups of earthen-ware, amongst which are those of Guatemala, Ni-ista Rica, Chiriqui, Colombia, Bolivia,il, and Argentina, each disputing with Mexico the palm of merit. The work of the
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