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Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)

Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire, W.J. Furnival · leaf 900

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LEADLESS DECORATIVE TILES, FAIENCE, AND MOSAIC admitted on all hands that nowadays the whole secret of success in the potting trade is found in one issue, and that is suitable and tasteful decoration. The traveller who carries the most tastefully decorated samples (other things being equal) takes… … with a commonplace and ordinary print or pattern on them.’’ ( Sentinel , nth April 1892.) Then, again, R. L. Stevenson has written: — “About art, think last of what pays, first of what pleases. It is in that spirit only that art can be made.” This looks very antagonistic to commercial principles,…

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