fictile

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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