THE POTTER S ART. 



Fig. 1C. 



present day. The tomb was of the time of the Pharaohs, a little 

 later than the eighteenth dynasty. 



This vase, with its Chinese inscription, is represented in fig. 13, 

 from an exact cast made by Mr. Francis Davis. 



Another of the Chinese vases, found in the Theban tombs, is 

 represented in fig. 14. This is preserved in the Museum of the 

 Louvre. The shape of the vase is that of a flat-sided flask. A 

 side view is given in fig. 15. 



These flasks are very small. The engravings represent them of 

 their proper dimensions. Mr. Wilkinson thinks it probaHe that 

 they were brought to Egypt from India, the Egyptians having 

 had commercial relations with that country at a very remote 

 epoch, and that they came not as pieces of porcelain, but as vessels 

 containing some article of importation. 



16. Among the articles seen at the Great Exhibition, in the 

 Chinese department of the Crystal Palace, was a complete collection 

 of the various materials employed at the great Porcelain Works of 

 King Te Tching. This collection consisted of the plastic clay of 

 which the Chinese porcelain is formed, and of the various colouring 

 matters with which it is decorated. 



The place from which these specimens were sent is one of the 

 most ancient and celebrated of the porcelain manufactories still 

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