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Ancient Egyptian Pottery
The student of ceramic art has reason to be interested in the history of Egyptian art. No other in ancient times was so powerful or had such influence in the department of our present study. Each new discovery which is made leads towards the conviction that the art of enamelling pottery, which has been, wherever known, the highest means of uniting beauty with utility, first invented by the Egyptians nearly or quite four thousand years ago, has never been practised by any nation which did not, directly or indirectly, learn it from them.
This example of an art never wholly lost out of the world for four thousand years--an art which contributes so much to the civilization and refinement of the race--has deep interest to the student.