POTTERY.
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The following is a brief history of the art OF
Pottery from ancient times.


CIaY was the material used for the first
manufactured articles. 1t was easily ob-
tanned. easily wrought, and rendered use
ful.-Ihis art is the most ancient OF all.
1t was much cultivated in Campanla; the
Etruscans gave their vases the simple but
elegant forms which still serve as models
for use; and when the Romans had es-
tablshed themselves in I.atiun, the Le-
glslature of the republic, in assigning the
social ranks to their citizens, collected all
the potters to form the seventh division.


Agathocles, the king Of Sicily, was q
son Of potter. Though clad in imperial
purple, Commodus and Alexander Seve
rus occupied their leisure hours in mould
Ing cisv.-Rome WAS supplied with com