Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 207
ware, fi:om the lyo HALF-HOUR LECTURES. idea that lie actually painted on the plates with his ownhand. Wliether this tradition has any foundation or notcannot be positively affirmed; but the finest specimens ofthe painting are not earlier than 1540, twenty years afterEaphaels death. There are many… … Vase or Chalice, early Majolica, 1470. Plate, about 1540. Both Amatorie,or Gift-pieces. South Kensington Museum. From 1450 to 1500, the first period of Majolica, when itbore the name of Mezzo Majolica, it was dry and stifiinexecution, and exhibited little but grotesques of an earlyrenaissance…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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