Such objects are exhibited by thousands in our museums, and frequently figure in bas-reliefs and mural paintings.

Art and trade were not incompatible in Egypt; and even the coppersmith sought to give elegance of form, and to add ornaments in a good style, to the humblest of his works.

The saucepan in which the cook of Rameses III.

concocted his masterpieces is supported on lions' feet.

Here is a hot-water jug which looks as if it were precisely like its modern successors (fig.