ANCIENT POTTERY. 

 Fig. 6. Fig. 7. 



This painting does not show how the wheel is turned, but in 

 another the potter is represented giving with his left hand the 

 motion of rotation to the wheel. When this motion, by the 

 repeated action of the hand, acquires a sufficient rapidity to be 

 continued without further impulse, both hands are applied to the 

 dough, as represented in the figures. 



The potter (fig. 4) forms a ball of the magnitude necessary to 

 make a cup. The potter (fig. 5) forms the outside of the cup by 

 the pressure of his first finger, and the inside by his thumb. 

 Every one who is familiar with the action and attitude of a potter 

 working at the wheel, will recognise the peculiar position and 

 rounding of the arm in fig. 5. If the modern potter had served 

 his apprenticeship to him of 2000 B.C., the resemblance could not 

 be more exact. 



A cylindrical oven, c, is represented in fig. 6. The attendant, 

 A, is feeding the furnace beneath it with a stick of wood ; the 

 flames, D, which play around the cases containing the articles to 

 be baked are seen issuing from the top of the oven. 



Fig. 7, represents the oven after the baking has been completed 

 and the fire extinguished, the fire-door of the furnace being on 

 the other side. The potter, B, is in the act of taking out the 

 articles baked, and handing them to another, A, who piles them 



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