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rumors of the doubt arising in certain quarters of the actual age of certain specimens attracted to time before Christ. Well these questions did not effect their beauty and on these ground all experts agreed, but it was important to know whether they had influenced the early Chinese wares or whether the Chinese wares had influenced those from Racca, Babylon & Sousa. 
In reading what had been published on the subject and in trying comparison of things in my own care and what I could learn in conversation and discussion,  I frequently recalled my one day and the other which followed in studying the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek departments of the British Museum and later the Louvre. Well, by degrees, certain forms and colors of pottery and stone both glazed, and of early Egyptian,