The second phase is realistic or imitative of natural form, and the third—conventional, where the details are probably derived from natural suggestion but are treated with restraint; the last being the result of cultured appreciation of process and æsthetic considerations.
Personal Production
It is essential to assume that originally it was customary to personally produce whatever was considered necessary in the way of pottery or weapons, but that eventually certain workers would devote themselves more or less exclusively to producing for the community, being compensated by immunity from other labour, and that this developed in course of time into patronage, and the producer being entirely supported by his craft.
Appreciation from would-be possessors stimulated
| No. 1. | |
| A. Cup, Barrow, Denzell, Cornwall. B. Cinerary Urn, Barrow, Stanlake, Oxon. C. Sepulchral remains, Nilgiri Hills, Sth. India. D. Jug, German sepulchral mounds, Bronze Age. | E. Sepulchral remains, Nilgiri Hills, Sth. India. F. Early English puzzle jug. G. Cinerary Urn, Barrow, Bloxworth Down, Dorset. H. Food Vessel, sepulchral mounds, earliest Bronze Age, Ireland. |
No. 2. A. B. Palaeolithic Bone Carvings.
C. " Etching on Bone.