The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 110
icult, not to say impossible, to enumeratethe various shapes he was able to give to his enamelled ware. Combining in CERAMIC ART. 69 himself all the artistic talent of his day, he was at the same time a skilfuldesigner and an intelligent modeller; and thus he discovered a thousandresources for the… … Fig. 41.—Goblet, by Bernard Palissy. (Museum of the Louvre.) and bowls, are seen natural objects represented with astonishing truthfulnessas to form and colour ; nearly all these are modelled from nature, andgrouped with perfect taste ; from the lower surface, rippled by streams ofwater in which…
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