Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...structure. In it was found a typical Roman wine-press. In the cistern connected with this wine-press was found a very valuable collection of silver utensils now on exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. The collection includes cups, plates and bowls wrought in symbolic designs of exquisite workmanship...
...Fogg Museum has lately received the following important accessions of original works: a marble statue of Aphrodite of fine later Greek workmanship, presented by members of the class of '95; a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, and a small painting in oil color having the characteristics of the work of Correggio, both of which are deposited as an indefinite loan by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95; and an Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century, B.C., presented by Mr. C. F. Murray, of London. These works will be all on view shortly...
...Clarence B. Moore '73 has presented the Peabody Museum with three clay vessels, valuable relics of the Indian mound-builders of Alabama. Mr. Moore personally conducted excavations at Bear Point, Baldwin county, Alabama, and found these vessels of extreme value in showing the skilful workmanship of the Indians. There is a black clay dish fourteen inches in diameter, a plate of the same material, ten inches in diameter and a small vase moulded from clay. All are broken into fragments which will be put together at the Museum...
...Peabody Museum has recently acquired about thirty interesting soapstone vessels which were collected in West Virginia by a physician interested in ethnology. Some of them are mere rudely shaped stones, and others are finished and polished dishes which give evidence of skillful workmanship. The vessels are of different shapes and sizes, the circular dishes varying from about four to twelve inches in diameter. They are believed to have been made by the Algonquin Indians, who once inhabited the country in which the soapstone quarries...
...undertaken during the absence of Professor Goodale in Europe. This consignment, which is the first to be received since June 1899, comprises twenty specimens, six of which were more or less damaged, owing to an unusually rough voyage. They are believed to mark the highest perfection of workmanship yet attained in the series. Among the better known flowers represented are two varieties of Kalmialaurel, the common Indian Pipe; a gold enrod, and the pond duckweed. The last two-mentioned are especially notable for the extraordinary nicety of execution...