. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. 5.—Bronze Aye. of bone, and some of bronze. Among these, which pertain to our subject,are a few pots of clay, which have survived the gnawing tooth of Time. In Figs. 1 and 2 are to be seen two of these. They are coarse andclumsy, and are of blackish-gray clay, hardened in the sun or in aninsufficient fire. They are not turned upon a wheel, but show marks 16 POTTERY AND Fig. 6.—Bronze Age. of the fingers inij^ressed in tlie soft claj. Yet we cannot but be struckwith the faint attempt at deco
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. 5.—Bronze Aye. of bone, and some of bronze. Among these, which pertain to our subject,are a few pots of clay, which have survived the gnawing tooth of Time. In Figs. 1 and 2 are to be seen two of these. They are coarse andclumsy, and are of blackish-gray clay, hardened in the sun or in aninsufficient fire. They are not turned upon a wheel, but show marks 16 POTTERY AND Fig. 6.—Bronze Age. of the fingers inij^ressed in tlie soft claj. Yet we cannot but be struckwith the faint attempt at decoration to be seen on the foot of one of them, even in that era of savageness.
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