London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 601
&c. &c. According to the usethey are intended for, they must, unless they are very large, haverather a wide presenting (darbietende) mouth, and not end in acontracted form like Jig. 210. If these vessels should require aclosed form at top, in order to preserve spirituous drinks, thiswill be… … the handle, but the lid in Jig. 214. is taken off by the knob attop: the latter arrangement is more simple, and therefore admitsof greater beauty; because it requires no particular mechanism,which is apt to attract the eye from the vessel, and thereby dis-turbs the consideration of the form…
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