Tig. 11. 



HE CELEBRATED COP OF ARCESILAU?, IX FLAX, WORK OF THE CYF.ENIAX 

 POTTERS CONTEMPORARY WITH PINDAK, 500 B.C. 



THE POTTER'S ART. 



CHAPTER I. 



1. Antiquity and general estimation of the art. 2. Its materials and their 

 treatment. 3. Potter's -wheel. 4. Allusions to the art found in 

 ancient writers. 5. Ancient drawings in Theban catacombs. 

 6. Processes of potters 1900 B.C. 7. Homer and the potters of 

 Samos. 8. Ancient tombs containing pottery excavated near Naples. 

 9. Proofs of their antiquity. 10. Campanian sepulchral chamber 

 with pottery. 11. German sepulchres. 12. Cup of Arcesilaus.- 

 13. Ancient Greek potters. 14. Chinese traditions of pottery.- 

 15. Chinese pottery found at Thebes. 16. Porcelain works of King 

 Te Tching. 17. Processes practised there. 



1. AFTEB the fabrication of weapons for personal defence and 

 the procuring of food, and that of some rude species of clothing, 

 the formation of vessels from "baked clay is the most ancient 

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