. St. Nicholas [serial]. was undoubt-edly a mere paint-pot—a gallipot, or little cupof pottery glazed so that it would hold liquid; in-deed, the word gallipot means glazed pot, asthe dictionary will tell you. A form of this earlyvessel is seen in the Greek royal ink-stand herepictured. This is of pottery, and is in the prim-itive shape, except for the improvement made bythe addition of a cover to keep out dust. Afterthe cover had been invented, it was not a difficultmatter to cut a hole in the top to make a placefor the pen — probably a split reed, such as wasused by the Egyptian scribes for w
. St. Nicholas [serial]. was undoubt-edly a mere paint-pot—a gallipot, or little cupof pottery glazed so that it would hold liquid; in-deed, the word gallipot means glazed pot, asthe dictionary will tell you. A form of this earlyvessel is seen in the Greek royal ink-stand herepictured. This is of pottery, and is in the prim-itive shape, except for the improvement made bythe addition of a cover to keep out dust. Afterthe cover had been invented, it was not a difficultmatter to cut a hole in the top to make a placefor the pen — probably a split reed, such as wasused by the Egyptian scribes for writing upontheir papyrus leaves. There is nothing wherebywe can determine the date of this stand, but thesimplicity of its design and decoration would suggest that it belonged to an early period, per-haps about 500 We may see its directdescendant to-day in the solid glass ink-stands JSpi^j: 1 m$x #i,iwMfr S83#r^*j3 *k$h„ W^t^ft^^- :,;5E« «mmm -Jiiwu&m+r&tf ^M jjVljiljA &-,.- j^i Wmfi&, ii 1 -. AN OLD-TIME INK-HORN. A JAPANESE INK-STAND. exposing the ink only at one small opening inthe top, though these later ink-stands have theadvantage that they do not spill ink when over-turned. With this simplest form of ink-holder we mustclass the ink-horn, and the clay stand that hasa ring-handle for carrying. The ink-horns, too,needed either a support, when used on a table,or a cord when carried upon the scribes person. A compromise between ink-horn and fountain-pen is found in the Japanese contrivance thatholds both brush and ink. In order to beunderstood, the picture needs a little explana-tion. The round portion of the apparatus isthe ink-holder. Within it is a sponge soaked
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