The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 83
t abbey of Jumieges (in Ivormandy),which date fioni the year 1120, there have been found fragments of potteryof a fine but porous clay, covered with a glazing somewhat similar to thatnow used ; and we read in a chronicle of the ancient province of Alsace, thatin the year 1283 died a potter of… … Fig- II-—Vases of ancient shape, represented in the decorative sculpture of the Church of St. Benoit, Paris. (Twelfth Cenlur}-.) discovered the art of making magnificent enamelled ware for covering theexterior of their monuments ; and that the Arabs settled in Spain producedwonderful examples of…
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