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Textile and fictile arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other. The textile art is the parent, and, as I have already shown, develops within itself a geometric system of ornament. The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration. It is dependent and plastic.
She has visited the British Museum, continental museums, and Greece, and Spain: and hopes to imitate the old fictile work in time, especially the Greek of the best period, four hundred years after Christ, or before Christ I forget which it was Paula said.... O no, she is not practical in the sense you mean, at all. 'A mixed young lady, rather.
Hitherto, however, the reader has not been brought into contact with any specimens of Chaldaean fictile art which can be regarded as exhibiting elegance of form, or, indeed, any sense of beauty as distinguished from utility. Such specimens are, in fact, somewhat scarce, but they are not wholly wanting.
He had but to cover this material with a vitrification of transparent glaze, to obtain one of the most important products of fictile art that which, under the name of English earthenware, was to attain the greatest commercial value and become of the most extensive utility.
The decorative and fictile art of the Parthians has received no inconsiderable amount of illustration from remains discovered, in the years 1850-1852, in Babylonia. In combination with a series of Parthian coins were found by Mr.
The vases were exceedingly interesting, as the first rude attempts of the Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. But my interest in these objects was speedily transferred to a far more wonderful sight, which the candle of the guide disclosed to me.
Among the vases and drinking vessels with which the Chaldaean tombs abound, while the majority are characterized by a certain rudeness both of shape and material, we occasionally meet with specimens of a higher character, which would not shrink from a comparison with the ordinary productions of Greek fictile art. Churchill, the artist who accompanied Mr.
Hence, wherever newer and more improved methods of modelling came into use, there would arise an instinctive tendency on the part of the early potter to imitate the familiar marking by artificial means. Dr. Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines.
It is a curious reflection, however, that in spite of all the later improvements in the fictile art in spite of wheels and moulds, pastes and glazes, stamps and pigments, and all the rest of it the most primitive methods of the first potter are still in use in many countries, side by side with the most finished products of modern European skill and industry.
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