The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 199
s hands. At all events, the pure Italian taftedifplayed in all the defigns applied to it, renders it highly improbablethat it was of native origin. The material is a fine pipe-clay, and fo white as not to require anyfuper-enamelling; its glaze is tranfparent, and (lightly tinged with yellow. The… … fuch as the bowl, they are transferred from printed impreffions. Thelatter procefs is evident from the irregularity obfervable in the patternat the junction of the four fections of which it is compofed; arifing, nodoubt, from the difficulty of applying a flat print to a round furface. The defign of…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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