. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Ancient German. welcome; Vivas, live; Bihe, drink; Vive, hibe multum, live and drinkmuch, etc. Pottery was undoubtedly made by the Saxons, the Scandinavians,the Gauls, and the Germans, before the coming of Eoman armies andRoman potters. Of these early remains examples have been found inthe harrows of England, and in other excavations. M. Cleuziou published a work in 1872, La Poterie Gauloise, La Poterie Gauloise, Description de la Collection Charvet, par Henri du Cleuziou,Paris, 1872. 28 POTTERY AND PORCELA
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Ancient German. welcome; Vivas, live; Bihe, drink; Vive, hibe multum, live and drinkmuch, etc. Pottery was undoubtedly made by the Saxons, the Scandinavians,the Gauls, and the Germans, before the coming of Eoman armies andRoman potters. Of these early remains examples have been found inthe harrows of England, and in other excavations. M. Cleuziou published a work in 1872, La Poterie Gauloise, La Poterie Gauloise, Description de la Collection Charvet, par Henri du Cleuziou,Paris, 1872. 28 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. warmly and strenuously claiming fur the Gauls an art and a potterybefore the coming of the all-grasping Romans; who, he asserts, notonly stole their country, but also have claimed to be their benefactorsand civilizers when they were not. I cannot, of course, discuss the ques-tion here. The engravings given (Figs. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23) are quotedby M. Figuier, from whom I take them, as examples of this early andcurious work. Some of these certainly seem to indicate an inspiration. Fig. 1}.âGerman Pottery. Fig. li.âGerman Pottery. original and <|uite different from what we see among the , and after the coming of the Eomans, there were produced inGaul yases and other articles, which may well be called Gallo-Boraaine^or Gallic-Iioman. The German potters also produced at a very early day large quan-tities of pottery, which has a character of its own. That it must havebeen very extensively made and used is evident from the many speci-mens exhumed in various parts of Germany ; in such numbers, indeed,that the peasantry have a profound belief they are the work of thedwai-fs, and that they sprout spontaneously like mushrooms, as I havesaid. The examples we present are more simple than most of theRoman work, and the decoration is more severe. (Figs. 24-, 25, 26.) Pots, vases, and childrens toys, are also found in tombs in vai-iousparts of Germany, some of which show d
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