fictile

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His home was stored with the most beautiful products of the manufacturer's skill in fictile arts, and on its walls hung the most approved examples of the painter's skill.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.

We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

From him Francesco Xanto caught Something of his transcendent grace, And into fictile fabrics wrought Suggestions of the master's thought.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess