History of the Ceramic Art: A Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the Pottery of All Ages and All Nations (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from History of the Ceramic Art: A Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the Pottery of All Ages and All Nations

Similar ideas proceed from Similar conditions, and develop themselves more or less rapidly according to given rules.

On the day when man, walking upon the clayey soil, softened by inundations or rain, first Observed that the earth retained the print of his footsteps, the plastic art was discovered and when, lighting a fire to warm his limbs or to cook his food, he remarked that the surface of the hearth changed its nature and its colour, that the reddened clay became sonorous, impervious, and hardened in its new Shape, the art was revealed to him of making vessels fit to contain liquids.

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