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Crockery & glass journal (1875)

New York : G. Whittemore & Co. · leaf 492

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maid, or the groups fromthe Tinder Box, or the Emperor in nothing but his shirtand imagination! You pick up a wonderfully stolid andflabby porcelain hippopotamus, and, wondering how hecan be so lifelike, you learn that he was modeled byPrincess Marie after being trundled across to her on atruck… … sculptor realized, for it is no king of beasts, but merelya dejected Zoo lion. The colored and crystalline glazes discovered in 1886are steadily producing remarkable effects unknown beforein crackled or other glazes. There is none of the mystery and secrecy surroundingthe ateliers and workshops of…

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