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 99
he lower surface, rippled by streams ofwater in which fish of the river Seine are swimming, coiled reptiles risegracefully from among fossil shells (we must remember that Palissy was a 58 CERAMIC ART. geologist), found in the tertiary strata of Paris; on the marli (the slopingedge of the dish),… … indicate a close observer. AYe must not, however, form our opinion ofPalissy from these rustic works alone, but also from his vases, where heintroduced all the ornamental richness of those times, and on which he tooka pleasure in developing all his fertility of composition and his knowledge as…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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