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 307
of Leghorn,where they are called coppo, in Sienna cziro, and orcio in theFlorentine territory, t Some of these are of enormous diameter,and of extraordinary capacity. In Spain, similar vessels aretermed tinaja (Figs. 86,87), and are of the most gigantic sizeknown, some of them requiring twenty men… … Fig. 89. Koupchine. Caucasus (From Brongniart.) measured some four metres (13 feet 1^ inches) high, by twometres in diameter. They had probably been introduced intoSpain by the Moors, as similar vessels are found among the Arabsof Mount Atlas. The oil jars of the Porty Thieves/ in the Arabian…
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