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Pottery. ^ , 3S3 changeableness of needs, almost everywhere alike, which he has to satisfy, is hmited to a very small number "of combinatiofts. Geometric design alone, with its play of lines, admits of many arrangements, and when, in addition to these, forms derived from the living world are introduced into the comjjosition, their number and variety will become well-nigh endless. Such types will give rise to interpretations the number of which will depend on the Via. 470. — Three-hnntlled am]ih(ira. Height, 4 particular bent of the artist's mind ; this will either incline him to a literal rendering of his model, or a happy selection of the fairest and most impressive features, and thus lead to the creation of ideal forms. Shapes, then, are much more stubborn than ornament,"