1. Engraved gem, present whereabouts not known.
Millin, Peintures de vases antiques, II, title vignette.
Fig. 81. Youth removing vase from oven with two sticks
Millin, Peintures de vases, II, title vignette
A youth is sitting in front of an oven removing with two sticks a two-handled vase which has been placed there for drying. He is using the sticks instead of his fingers because the pot is too hot to touch; not in order to avoid injuring the fresh glaze on the vase, as has been suggested (cf. Blümner, Technologie u. Terminologie II, 1895, p. 52), for the sticks would mark the glaze as much as the fingers would. Modern potters often use sticks for removing hot ware from the kilns (cf. [p. 36]).
2. Engraved gem, present whereabouts not known.
Millin, Peintures de vases antiques, I, vignette.
Blümner, Technologie u. Terminologie, II, p. 52, fig. 13.
