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Tho history of tcrra-cotta is lost in romoto | antiquity. In Egypt wo find an old logend,, that Nun, tho great spirit, formed the j heavens and tho earth, and then with his potter’s whoel brought into shapo a man. Numorous legends and antiquarian discoveries prove that tho origin of tho art is prehistoric. Mr. Leonard Horner discovered fragmonts of terra-cotta in good preservation in his oxcavations at Memphis, so deep below tho deposits of tho Nilo that ho gives them an ago of 115,000 years. Such dates, of courso, aro open to objection, but wo havo in tho British Musoum various rolics of Egyptian art of the third or fourth dynasties—2,000 and .'5,000 years boforo
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Pottery and Glass Trades Journal

London, Middlesex, GB

Wed, Oct 01, 1879

Page 49

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