Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 76
ison in poverty in1590 at the age of eighty. As efforts of decorative design the encrusted wares ofPalissy cannot be placed in a high rank of decorative art,but the art of France would be considerably poorer withoutthe genius of Palissy, an artist of whom any nation mightbe justly proud. POTTERY.… … Fig. 51.—Pilgrims Bottle, Nevers AVare. (S. K. M.) artists, named Scipio Gambin, worked at Nevers, under thepatronage of the Due de Nivernais. The maiolica productions at Nevers were in imitation ofthe Urbino, Castel-Durante, and Faenza wares, but thecolours were inferior, probably owing to the…
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