id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 33295 Various Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Volume 5, Slice 6 .txt text/plain 149591 7298 65 A plate-like shell is developed in a closed sac formed by the mantle pottery; the oldest type known to us, the black and red ware of Ballas Egyptian pottery is a ware of buff colour with surface decorations in Ptolemaic period, the commonest pottery was a red ware, usually covered Coming to ordinary pottery we find that in early times well-formed vases painted vases at the end of the 17th century, though for a long time of painted colour and glaze, like the later Persian or Chinese, was _Manufacture of Vases_.--The earliest Greek pottery is, like all _Vitreous and Lead-glazed Wares_.--In Greek tombs a class of pottery the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. Painted wares are at all times rare, but were occasionally produced in century an artistic development took place, and the potters were formed examples of porcelain decorated with colours fired over the glaze. ./cache/33295.txt ./txt/33295.txt