. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 194. — Lamp holder in the formof a tree trunk. Fig. 195. — Lamp stand, of bronze. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE 369 The lamp seen in this illustration is the same as that shownmore clearly in Fig. i88, at the right. Kitchen utensils of bronze and red earthenware have beenfound in great quantity; table furnishings more rarely. Agroup of typical examples is presented in Fig. 196. The formsare so similar to those of the utensils found in modern house-holds that few words of explanation are Fig. 1 Kettle mounted on a c, d. Pails,tripod ready to be e. Ladle,placed
. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 194. — Lamp holder in the formof a tree trunk. Fig. 195. — Lamp stand, of bronze. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE 369 The lamp seen in this illustration is the same as that shownmore clearly in Fig. i88, at the right. Kitchen utensils of bronze and red earthenware have beenfound in great quantity; table furnishings more rarely. Agroup of typical examples is presented in Fig. 196. The formsare so similar to those of the utensils found in modern house-holds that few words of explanation are Fig. 1 Kettle mounted on a c, d. Pails,tripod ready to be e. Ladle,placed on the fire. f. Dipper. ? Bronze utensils. k. Pitcher.;;/. Kitchen , v. Table spoons. s. Pastry , u. Wine Two-handled pan. ^> g> h, I. Cooking pots. t, t. Baking pans for o,p. Frying pans,small cakes. The pastry mould (s) is of good size and neatly finished, andmust have left a clear impression. Besides the two types oftable spoons illustrated here (n, v) a third is represented by ex-amples found at Pompeii, the cochlear, which had a bowl at one 21! 37° POMPEII end and ran out into a point at the other. The point wasused in picking shellfish out of their shells, the bowl in eating eggs. The two long ladles were used in dipping wine out of the mixing bowl into the cups. The ancients ordinarily drank their wine mingled with water; for mixing theliquids they used a large bowl of earth-enware or metal, which was often richlyornamented. The mixing bowl pre-sented in Fig. 197 was found
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