The ceramics of Swansea and Nantgarw: a history of the factories. With biographical notices of the artists and others, notes on the merits of the porcelains, the marks thereon, etc (1897)
THE ETRUSCAN WARE OF WALES. 285 approaching his elevated status. He did not confine himself to imitate nature, but created conventional forms of his own. He even divided his art into as many as nine different styles. According to Jacquemart, the Etruscan only approached the Greek style at the last… … Fig. 3. — Tazza with Dancing Girls, Royal Institution, Swansea. Side view. Be this as it may, not only the Etruscan but the moderns have imitated the Greek almost slavishly. Perhaps the greatest and closest imitator was Josiah Wedgwood. His Portland vase is historic ; and his jasper ware, in turn,…
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