Capart, Jean, 1877-1947 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 125
ORNAMENTAL AND DECORATIVE ART. loi We must mention that ivory was also used for vases, and, judging from a very fine fragment discovered at Abydos, it was decorated in the same manner as stone.^ To pass to vases of fantastic shapes, one of the most curious is that discovered by Petrie at Abydos,… … Fig. 72. — Stone Vases with Animal Ficures in Relief. a leather bottle- (Fig. 74). Other s[)ecimeiis from Naqada represent birds, frogs, and hippopotami (Figs. 75 and jG). At Hicrakonpolis Mr. Quibcll discovered two vases of steatite and serpentine in form of birds.'* In the MacGregor Collection at…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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