Pompeii - its life and art (1899) (14586434930)

Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00mauauoft (find matches)
Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
Fig. 194. — Lamp holder in the form of a tree trunk. Fig. 195. — Lamp stand, of bronze. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE 369 The lamp seen in this illustration is the same as that shown more clearly in Fig. 188, at the right. Kitchen utensils of bronze and red earthenware have been found in great quantity; table furnishings more rarely. A group of typical examples is presented in Fig. 196. The form sare so similar to those of the utensils found in modern house-holds that few words of explanation are needed.
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 196. - Bronze utensils. a. Kettle mounted on a tripod ready to be placed on the fire. b,g,h,l. Cooking pots. c, d. Pails. e. Ladle. f. Dipper. i,t. Baking pans for small cakes. k. Pitcher. m. Kitchen spoon. n, v. Table spoons. o, p. Frying pans. s. Pastry mould. q,u. Wine ladles. r. Two-handled pan. The pastry mould (s) is of good size and neatly finished, and must have left a clear impression. Besides the two types of table spoons illustrated here (n, v) a third is represented by examples found at Pompeii, the cochlear, which had a bowl at one 370 POMPEII end and ran out into a point at the other. The point wasused in picking shellfish out of their shells, the bowl in eating eggs. The two long ladles were used in dipping wine out of the mixing bowl into the cups. The ancients ordinarily drank their wine mingled with water; for mixing the liquids they used a large bowl of earthenware or metal, which was often richly ornamented. The mixing bowl pre-sented in Fig. 197 was found