Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1930, Page 126

.HE POTTERS WHEEL OF ANCIENT TIMES WAS MERELY A DISK THAT TURNED UPON A SHORT POST OR STAKE DRIVEN INTO THE GROUNP. A BOY SPUN THE WHEEL RAPIDLY NSS! WHILE THE POTTER o = MOLDED THE REVOLVING R ——— o MASS OF CLAY. — < iy o .HREE THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE THE BEGINING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA THE EGYPTIANS WERE MAKING HOUSEHOLD VESSELS OF ClLAY, SHAPING THEM EITNER BY HAND OR ON THE"POTTER'S WHEEL " .ABYLONIAN POTTERY WAS ELABOR- ATELY DECORATED WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND FREQUENTLY COVERED WITH INSCRIPTIONS RECOUNTING MIS- TORIC EVENTS AND BITS OF LITERATURE. IT WAS GLAZED WITH A LEAD ENAMEL. . T . .HE MORE PRACTICAL ROMANS MADE LESS PROGRESS IN CERAMIC AR, BUT USED AN ENORMOUS AMOLNT OF MANU - FACTURED CLAY FOR UTILITARIAN PUR- POSES INTHE FORM OF BRICK AND TILES. o | -EFOQE THE T CLAY WAS | PLACED UPON THE POTTERS M WHEEL 1T WAS KNEADED BY HAND LIKE DouGH.THIS MADE THE CLAY ~ 4 PLIANT,AND DISPOSED OF THE EXCESS WATER . .ATEQ,(19OO B.C.)THE E POT- TERS ACHIEVED BRILLIANT EFFECTS BY GLAZING THEIR WARE WITH A TIN ENAMEL., THEY ALSO MOLDED> STATUETTES AND CHARMS OF CLAY, COVERING THEM WITH A RICH BLUE AND GREEN GLAZE. HE GREENKS WITH THEIR LOVE OF BEAUTY, ELEVATED POTTERY-MAKING TO A FINE ART. IN 500 B.C.THEY WERE PRODUCING POLISHED BLACK AND RED WARE. THEIR EMBOSSED;, FIGURED DESIGNS STILL FURNISH INSPIRATION TO MODERN POTTERS. .HE ROMANS WERE EXPERT POTTERS AND PRODUCED SOME EXQUISITE WARE. ONTHE MEELS OF THE CONQUERING LEGIONS OF THE CAESARS, ROMAN POTTERIES SPRANG UP ALL OVER WESTERN EUROPE, ——° OQ FOUR THOUSAND YEARS NO IMPROVEMENT THE PRIMITIVE POTTERS WHEEL . THEN A LOWER BY THE FEET, WAS ADDEP. ~ o '((‘1 e T ANSFIELD E EGYPTIANS USED GLASS AS A GLAZE FOR POTTERY BEFORE IT WAS DEVELOPED AS AN INDEPENDENT MATERIAL . THE POTTERY USED BY THE KKINGS AND NOBLES WAS DE - CORATED WITH GLOWING COLORS AND IN- CRUSTED WITH GOLD> AND> PRECIOUS STONES. TO THE VICTORS IN THE OLYMPIC. GAMES, A CUSTOM WHICH SURVIVES IN THE b GIFT OF A CUPTO THE WINNER IN MANY ATHLETIC CONTESTS OF TODAY. L < -HEN THE ROMANS CONQUERED> ENGLAND THEY ESTABLISHED POTTERIES AT UPCHURCH AND OTHER PLACES WHERE CLAY BANKS WERE- FOUNPD>. THE BLACKK AND GRAY COLOR OF THE "UPCHURCH 'WARE WAS OBTAINED BY SMOKING THE VESSELS IN THE FIRE. —— ConTINUED. —