anted, sur-rounds beautiful objects of this class; they not onlyappeal to our aesthetic sense, but a host of con-jectures arise as to how such marvels of clay wereproduced, and, if they were made in remote per-iods, cannot they be produced now? Such aproposition ma\ be answered to the point, as… … Chinese Ceramic Collections in Museums pottery began to reach the collectors or museumsof the Western world, and then their isolated ap-parition (among the more or less objects of com-merce) staggered the amateurs by their transcen-dant beauty and perfection. Such examples ver\-promptly excited the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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