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 166
eror to the courts ofLisbon, Madrid, and Home, and a great number of theJapanese were converted to Christianity. But the am-bition, intrigues, and secret conspiracies of the Portu-guese against the government of Japan, as well astheir religious dissentions among themselves, led totheir final… … Fig. 53. Saucer. Ancient Pattern. Japan. (Coll. Marryat.) Portuguese missionaries having interfered with the porce-lain manufactories, and by means of their converts, causingthe ware to be ornamented with subjects copied fromprints of Scripture histories, and legends of saints, insteadof adhering…
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