A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 184
THE VITREOUS ART pierced with holes for all windows but the small- est. For other semi-utilitarian purposes, however, glass was, at least during the last four or five centuries of the Greco-Roman civilization, in use … Fig. 44. Two small plain bottles (Marquand Collection) much more freely than in our own time. Thus the Romans, in addition to their abundant stock of materials for wall-lining, such as rich marbles, cheaper white and veined marble, mosaic of vari- ous materials, and tiles of earthenware, had also…
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