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History of the ceramic art. A descriptive and philosophical study of the pottery of all ages and all nations (1877)

Jacquemart, Albert, 1808-1875, Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Catenacci, H, Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand, 1837-1880 · New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 258

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s. It is necessary to satisfythe thirst for novelty and the caprices ofthe rich, who wish to be remarkable inpossessing works without equal; and aboveall the surfeited mind requires excitement bycatering for it things curious, unknown, ororiginal. The collection of the Louvre offers, in this… … VASE WITH TWO HEADS, ALPHiEUSAND ARETHUSA. 218 HISTORY OF THE CERAMIC ART. the great head of Silenus, a young satyr laughing; nymphs, negroes, allshow the versatility of talent of the Greek potters. The figure piecesare still more varied : the young Hercules, kneeling, strangling the lionof Mount…

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