The Patterns and Shapes of the Ware. 



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remember bow mucb eartbenware was used in daily life by tbe 

 Romans— for tbeir lloors, and drinking-cups, and oil and wine 

 flasks, and unguent vessels, and cinerary urns, and boxes for 



Patterns frcm Fragments. 



money. Tbe beauty, bowever, of tbe forms, even if it does not 

 approacb tbat of tbe Upcburcb and Castor pottery, sbould be 

 noticed. Tbe flowing lines, tbe scroll-work patterns, tbe narrow 

 necks of tbe wine-flasks and unguent vessels, all sbow bow well 



Patterns from Fragments'. 



tbe true artist understands tbat it is tbe real perfection of Art 

 to make beauty ever tbe handmaid of use. 



Anotber tiling, too, is wortby of notice, that tbe artist was 

 evidently unfettered by any given pattern or rule. Whatever 

 device or form was at the moment uppermost in his mind, that 

 he carried out, his hand following the bent of bis fancy. Hence 

 the endless variety of patterns and forms. No two vessels are 

 exactly alike. In modern manufactures, bowever, the smooth 



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