Word: cottas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First among this class of objects should be mentioned the sculpture in glazed terra cotta. That people in Mesopotamia should at so early a date have mastered the art of glaze and been able to use it with such skill and control is almost as amazing as the perfection of the sculpture itself. Antedating the Assyrian and late Babylonian glazing by many hundreds of years, one finds here a fully perfected technique where might be expected the stumblings of a beginner...
...philologist, man's life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...
...doubt the prime piece is the figure of a lion couchant in terra cotta with an all over turquoise colored glaze which has in time taken on an irridesence not unlike that of the Han dynasty in China. Here is a boldness of design, a delicacy and subtlety of modelling that makes it one of the great pieces of Babylonian naturalistic without being imitative, and conventionalized without being studied. It has neither the dull realism of much of the late Assyrian works nor the unnatural grotesqueness of many early Sumerian works; coming in the era that it does one finds...
...which Ambassador Dwight Whitney Mor row was once a member. He had many large corporations among his clients, de fended the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1915 when they were charged with trying to monopolize New England commerce, was attorney for the "Terra Cotta Trust" in the Untermyer-Lockwood building inquiry...
...dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs of the two peoples were similar. From the Elamites descended the Sumerians, some of whose painted terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers also discovered traces of Nebuchadnezzar's restoration work on the temple of Harsgakalemma, and a baby's rattle in the form of a hollow clay hedgehog with...