fictile

The study of the fictile art of the potter, even from the theoretical side alone, cannot fail to quicken and broaden education.

It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.

They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.

Greek embroideries we can perfectly appreciate, by studying Hope’s “Costumes of the Ancients,” and the works of Millingen and others; also the fictile vases in the British Museum and elsewhere.

The inferiority of their religious architecture was due to the natural formation of their country, which restricted them almost entirely to the use of a fictile material.