Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 37
ar medallions in enamelled terra-cotta, repre-senting the twelve months of the year, one of which isillustrated at Fig. 13. The bas-relief of the Virgin andChild (Fig. 14) is likely to be a work of one of the DellaRobbia family. VOL. IL C i8 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Italian Maiolica. About the year 1450… … Fig. 14.—Virgin aud Child. School of Delia Robbia. (S. K. M.) teries of Urbino, Gubbio, and Castel-Durante were thenequally famous with those of Pesaro. It is generallythought that the use of metallic lustre was first known atPesaro ; the pearly, the ruby, and the golden lustres ap-peared at Pesaro…
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