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Ch. 9: Gemstone Imitations

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	240	PRECIOUS STONES.

	ornamentation and harmony of colouring, this vase is in no respect inferior to the best productions of the present day, and yet it must have issued from the hands of the Egyptian workman four thousand years ago. In Figs. 91, 93, 94, 95, and 96, the objects represented are of ceramic paste. From



	an artistic point of view, these objects are of no value, but the delicacy of their details is well worth notice, especially when we consider that they

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