. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. S^i.—Ki/tix, vf an Early J-onn. made to serve the purposes of a vase, whether for religious uses orother we do not Imow (Fig. 29). The terra-cotta earthenware vases and cups of the Greek and Etrus-can potters, by universal consent, have come to be accepted as the mostbeautiful and satisfactory. That they were thus perfect from the start,and always so, no one need maintain; but that from Greece and from. Kni. :H.—A</.,-. / ? Jo nil. many parts of it should have come such a vast number of vessels, nea
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. S^i.—Ki/tix, vf an Early J-onn. made to serve the purposes of a vase, whether for religious uses orother we do not Imow (Fig. 29). The terra-cotta earthenware vases and cups of the Greek and Etrus-can potters, by universal consent, have come to be accepted as the mostbeautiful and satisfactory. That they were thus perfect from the start,and always so, no one need maintain; but that from Greece and from. Kni. :H.—A</.,-. / ? Jo nil. many parts of it should have come such a vast number of vessels, nearlyall of which arc beyond criticism, is what no one can fully explain. Whence came the insj)iration, the pcrcei)tion of beauty, which madethe ordinary potter an artist, no man can tell. It is not possible that the men who worked at the potters wheel in THE ETRUSCAN VASES. Athens, or in Samos, or in Crete, were educated, as we say it, tosucli a fine sense of the beautiful. We, with all the education Ave canput into our people, do not equal them. We can no more explain thisthan we can tell how such a wonderful growth of beautiful cathedralsshot up into life in France in what we call the Middle Ages. Norwas this perfection only to be found among the potters who worked inGreece. It brought forth works fit for gods in Cyrenaica, on the north-ern coast of Africa, in great abundance; of which farther on we give
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