Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 38
aro ; the pearly, the ruby, and the golden lustres ap-peared at Pesaro and Gubbio before they were known atany other Italian pottery. The early pieces are decora- POTTERY. >9 tive dishes, or, as they are called, bacili, having abroad border and a deep sunk centre; at the back is aprojecting… … Fig. 15.—Early Pesaro Dish. (S. K. M.) designed, showing a mixture of Oriental with Gothic orItalian forms (Fig. 15). The potteries of Faenza, Forli,and Caffaggiolo are thought by some to be as early, ifnot earlier, in date than those of Pesaro. In 1444 Federigo, the second Duke of Urbino, built…
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