A history and description of Italian majolica (1907)
Solon, Louis Marc Emmanuel, 1835-1913 · London : Cassell · leaf 388
ers of Savona boasted of being particularly known as oiland fresco painters. Their dexterity in sketching a subjecton a dish or a vase with a few bold strokes of the brush wassometimes nothing short of wonderful. They gloried inexaggerating, as they went on, the extravagances of a moreand more… … SAVONA. Fig. 48.—dish with a battle subject. Victoria and Albert Museum. SAVON A 183 drinking bout, and coarse caricature, possibly much appreciatedat that moment, but which now seem to us wanting as muchin artistic merit as in ordinary good taste. The days had gone by when noble majolica could…
Majolica · Pottery, Italian
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