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 206
REPRESENTATIVE SCULPTURE generally rounded surface as of the cup, Fig. i 86, then the clay which is to form the rounded body may be turned in the lathe or on the potter's … Fig. i 86. Silver cup, Greco-Roman work, Naples Museum wheel, and the sculptor while he is piling up his modelling-wax may find it necessary to cut away some part of what had been at first his back- ground. Something of this may be noted in Fig. 7, where the ivory box has been shaped first, and the…
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