History of ancient pottery
A scholarly survey of ancient pottery by Samuel Birch, published in London by John Murray in 1858 for students and collectors of antiquities. The pictures are plain line engravings of vessels, with a jug, a bowl with relief decoration, a metal-looking ewer with figures, and a kylix-style cup showing reclining banqueters; a designer could borrow their simple outlines and classical vessel silhouettes for shape studies or historical motifs.
