A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors (1872)
Treadwell, John H · New York, Putnam · leaf 148
t and as exquisite as the corre-sponding colors produced by nature herself. To attempta pen-description of the marvellously beautiful decora-tions which adorn the productions of Sevres, is a literaryimpossibihty, and would only involve the reader in a con-fusion of expressions which could only be… … No. 24.—Sevres Vase. (Bernal Collection.) Nor can a printed reproduction of the piece itselfconvey anything but a dim idea of form and general ap-pearance. The accompanying representation (Cut No. 24)is taken from a small vase sold in the Bernal Collection inLondon.* Since the close of the…
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