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Tin enameled pottery : maiolica, delft and other stanniferous faience (1906)

Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 · Philadelphia : Printed for the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art · leaf 26

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hey are the work of the Chinese. The theory haseven been advanced by certain Mexican antiquaries that Chinesepotters were brought to Mexico from the Philippines, but it is morereasonable to suppose that these pieces are the productions of thelater Spanish-Mexican potters, who, breaking away from… … 15 this character, in the Museum collections (see No. 9), effectuallydisposes of the theory of Chinese workmanship. Encircling thebody are rudely painted human figures, male and female, with longqueues. No Oriental artist would depict Chinese women with hairso arranged. In the eighteenth century…

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