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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 282

An illustration from 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, leaf 282 — rtainly of the most elaborately beautifulcharacter. In the Alcazar of Seville,t specimens of Azulejos, * The Moorish tiles are generally painted, the Catholic stamped. Seville is very rich in this Moorish decoration. Aznl and Aznlejo are both GLOSSARY.] AZULEJO. 231 both Moorish and Catholic,, are… … Fig. 70. Azulejo. were being barbarously modernised by the governor, La Serna,in order to convert them into magazines, in which to depositthe food for his galley slaves. They are of various degrees ofquality, both as to the material and the painting. The followingare descriptions of some of these…

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