There were also several fragments of fictile ware consisting of unimportant portions of rims decorated as shown in the accompanying representations.
Portions of rims of vessels of fictile ware (ante, p.
After bones the next most frequent “find” consists of fragments of fictile ware.
Numerous fragments of fictile ware, of which five rims are given as specimens, were in No.
Stamped pattern on fragment of Fictile Ware from Drumskimly.
Next we come to Samos, an island always renowned in antiquity for its fictile ware.
At Calvi (Cales) Greek painted vases are almost unrepresented,[262] but this site is distinguished as the origin of two late varieties of fictile ware.
We now proceed to treat the subject of the fictile art among the Greeks in its technical aspects, prefacing our study with a section dealing with the uses of clay in general.
Museum Disneianum, being a description of a collection of various ancient fictile vases in the possession of J.
We propose now to give a survey of the principal localities in which the fictile products of the Greeks have been discovered, and the excavations which have taken place on these sites.
Other passages, if they do not actually refer to painted or even to fictile vases, are at least of value as giving information as to the current names for those in every-day use, or as to various purposes for which they were used.
Textile and fictile arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other.
The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration.
Herring bone and checker figures in fictile forms transferred from the textile.
Its advanced development as compared with other American fictile products is shown in the perfection of its technique, in the high specialization of form, and in its conventional use of a wide range of decorative motives.
They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.
Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort.
It is manufactured with much skill and is used for various domestic purposes, being practically water-tight and unbreakable, and materially lighter than even the unparalleledly light fictile ware of the Seri.
In addition to the utensils a fewfictile figurines were found.
While some three-fourths of the observed fictileware of the Seri and a still larger proportion of the scattered sherds represent conventional ollas, there are a few erratic forms.
The relative abundance of the fictile ware and this natural shell ware in actual use is about 1:3; i.
Hitherto, however, the reader has not been brought into contact with any specimens of Chaldaean fictile art which can be regarded as exhibiting elegance of form, or, indeed, any sense of beauty as distinguished from utility.
This is well illustrated by a remark of Birch, who, in dwelling upon the antiquity of the fictile art, says that "the existence of earthen vessels in Egypt was at least coeval with the formation of a written language.
And this, too, at a time when the fictile art was at a high pitch of excellence in Europe.
Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.
We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.
You may see them on Babylonian bas-reliefs, on Greek fictile vases, or painted in frescoes on the walls of Egyptian tombs and temples; in the houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and in the remains of Roman villas and tombs everywhere.
Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.
Examples of this kind of weaving may be obtained from the fictile remains of nearly all the Atlantic States.
Now, applying this to the facts of fictile art, we find that the Chinese and Japanese never attempted figure-work in porcelain, except in some few cases of burlesques, or of animals and birds.
These figures are of value, of course, as illustrations of the possibilities, and also as historical illustrations, of the growth and development of the fictile art.
From this it should be known that Wedgwood made the money with which he carried forward those investigations and experiments which at last culminated in his finest works of fictile art.
Use was, at the beginning, the motive for the production of all fictile dishes; and china was at first, and it has always been, made for the purposes of the table.
Still the chemists, the alchemists, of Europe were at work, peering with curious eyes into the composition of the most exquisite of fictile ware.
A valuable collection of the ancientfictile products of Tusayan belonging to Mr. Thomas Keam was also utilized in perfecting the exhibits of Pueblo art.
The West Indian negroes brought these simple arts with them from their African home, where they have been handed down in unbroken continuity from the very earliest age of fictile industry.
Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines.
In Fictile art, in Fictile history, it is equally exemplary.
When we consider that, except the urns which must be referred to the Pagan period, we have scarcely any examples of ancient Irish pottery, these specimens possess a peculiar interest for the investigators of fictile ware.
I have in vain attempted to ascertain if any of these singular examples of primitive fictile ware are still in existence.
These are the specimens of pottery of such frequent occurrence in the tumuli and cists, and which present, in every respect, so striking a contrast to the fictile manufactures of the Roman colonists.
Two other specimens of fictile ware, one of them supposed to be a lamp, were found imbedded in the surrounding earth, and also a flail-stone made of trap rock.
From the description it appears to bear a close resemblance to a fictile vessel found at the bottom of an old well, discovered under the foundation of houses in Cateaton Street, City, London, taken down in 1841.
This we may fairly regard as another important step in advance of the improvements already detected in the native fictile wares by the introduction of the potter's wheel.
It is only very recently, even in England, that the names of the potters stamped on Roman fictile ware, have attracted much attention or been carefully recorded.
So far as may be judged of Scottish medieval pottery from the few examples preserved, it does not greatly differ from contemporary English fictile ware.
Both of these specimens of primitive fictile ware are now in the Scottish Museum.
On none of the native arts did Roman intercourse effect a more remarkable change than on British fictile ware.
But fictile art belongs, for the most part, to periods greatly more recent than that of the ancient Stone age.
Hence the art of diverse races, periods, and stages of progress, finds its aptest illustration in fictile ware; and the imitative faculty of widely different American races may be studied in their pottery.
The pottery, the work of female hands, is usually in the simplest stage of coarse, handmade, fictile ware.
We owe to Etruscan and Hellenic fictile ware our sole knowledge of painting, contemporary with the most gifted masters of the sculptor’s art.
But when science ransacked the earth for foreign bodies and ingredients, foreign decorative ideas came with them and Fictile Art was no more a vernacular one.
Oldfield, Catalogue of Fictile Ivories sold by the Arundel Society (1855); A.
Athenaeus says that up to Macedonian times dinners were served infictile vessels, but that subsequently the Romans became more luxurious, and Cleopatra spent five minae a day on gold and silver wares.
It may be to the first-named variety that Festus refers when he speaks of antefixa of fictile work which are affixed to the walls underneath the gutters.
Aclius Tubero was found by the Aetolian ambassador dining off earthenware[3158]; Seneca also tells how he, at his entertainment given in the temple of Jupiter, placed fictile vessels before his guests.
They seem to have been usually of metal, but Pliny speaks of fictile simpula[3317]; the simpuvium is represented on coins and sacrificial reliefs.
The representation of subjects from Greek mythology or daily life on vases was not, of course, confined to fictile products.
Even under the Empire fictile vases continued to be used by the poorer classes, and the use of the finer red glazed wares must have been even more general.
Others are quaintly designed, but somewhat rudely worked, and would appear to indicate that fictile art had little attraction for that people.
Many others of the Indian tribes practised the fictile art, very few, so far as is known, being entirely ignorant of it.
