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Lady Charlotte Schreiber's journals : confidences of a collector of ceramics & antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria & Germany from the year 1869 to 1885 (1911)

Schreiber, Charlotte, Lady, 1812-1895, Guest, Montague John, 1839-1909, Mew, Egan, Victoria and Albert Museum. Schreiber Collection · London : John Lane ; New York : John Lane Company · leaf 33

An illustration from Lady Charlotte Schreiber's journals : confidences of a collector of ceramics & antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria & Germany from the year 1869 to 1885, 1911, leaf 33
and inquired for him, andhe showed us over every department. M. Peternick makesnothing but pottery, and that of the most uninviting descrip-tion. His most prized pieces are a kind of spurious Majolica,badly coloured, and worse designed. It was painful to thinkthat poor Mr. Keys was spending his… … 5 * > H S Z < a•Hag •_ 0-J II a! INi i877 NOTES CERAMIC one Fredk. Miles (with a wife and three sons, all employedthere). He had been a small potter himself, and had failed,but now the family are earning ^5 a week, and when theyhave saved enough they intend to return to England, and setup for…

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