Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of arts, 1880, amplified and enl. (1881)
Edis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1839-1927 · New York, Scribner and Welford · leaf 308
ry, porcelainand glass, spared no pains to improve the design andmanufacture of their various wares, all of which showan immense progress in skill of manipulation and goodartistic treatment. From the earliest times, the work of the potter has,in a great degree, marked the progress of… … OF TOWN HOUSES. 247 nation, not only in the lines and shape of the merematerial clay, but in the decoration with which it wasultimately adorned. The history of the art is of the highest interest, asoffering not only an insight into the various skilledwork of the manipulation and mixing of the clay,…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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