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 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. clayey chuck or block ; but so long as the potter was without this simple and marvellous instrument, the polisher was indis- Moilar and pestle. Basalt and hnid calcareous si pensable for correcting defects of modelling, and effacing traces left by the fingers on the body.' Fig. 22.— Polisher. Hcmaiitc. Half siie. In those early days the polisher was not applied to potVery ' The polisher was never given up even after the invention of the whet- "The apparent fineness of the exterior of the vases," says Birch, "is solely due to the care with which the surface was polished by artificial means or the hand." — Trans.