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hvd.32044041925496	Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933.	Origin and development of form and ornament in ceramic art by William H. Holmes	1886		.txt	text/plain	844	59	66	FORM AND ORNAMENT IN CERAMIC ART ORIGIN OF CERAMIC FORMS. By such means the use of clay was discovered and t he ceramic art came in some simple art, may have suggested the making of a cup, the simplest form of vessel. The use of clay as a cement in repairing utensils, in protecting combustible vessels from injury by fire, or in building up the walls of shallow vessels, may also have led to the formation of disks or cups, afterwards independently constructed. by that people, tend to assume shapes suggested by stone vessels. Forms of vessels so derived may be said to Clay has no inherent qualities of a nature to impose a given form In the early stages of art, forms are rarely invented outright and I lead to the multiplication of forms through modification. of these features, and hence arise many modifications of original forms. As arts multiply, clay is applied to new uses.	./cache/hvd.32044041925496.pdf	./txt/hvd.32044041925496.txt