Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain, in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries : with a description of the manufacture, a glossary, and a list of monograms (1850)
Marryat, Joseph · London : J. Murray · leaf 118
. 38), sometimes of abeautiful turquoise, were made in Franconia about 1540. The red porcelain, as it was called, made by Bottcher,was merely a very fine stoneware, having the opacity,grain, and toughness of pottery. The Flemish stoneware, or Gres Flamand, is an earlyproduction of Flanders. It is… … Fig. 39. Vase. Gres Flamand. (Coll. Huyvetter.) * See Coloured plate, « Jug, Flemish stoneware.1 78 HISTORY OF POTTERY. [chap. v. which extended from 1540 to 1620. After this period, theart appears to have been lost altogether, at least, nothingbut articles of the most inferior kind have since been…
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