Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — Pottery the Oldest Art. [ARTICLE]

Pottery the Oldest Art.

Pottety is the oldest, the longest amt most widely diffused of all human arts. Its history. If recorded, would be as old as the history of man; its recorded history begins with the building vs the tower of Babel. The oldest pottery known is Egyptian, but every people, civilized or barbarian, has practiced the art In one or another form.All study in every deportment of art begins at a.period not long after the Mosaic deluge, but pottery is ths earliest of all forms of art.