A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors (1872)
Treadwell, John H · New York, Putnam · leaf 40
thoughtthat they were lost through deliquescence, upon exposureto the atmosphere, as were a number of rings and brace-lets taken from Egyptian mummies. This can aloneaccount for the fact that not one remains, and at thepresent time they are known only through the mediumof history. In the collection… … No. 7.—An Egg op Persian Pottery.(From the Grotto of the Nativity at Bethlehem.) them is given here in cut number seven. The one fromwhich this illustration is taken was an ornament of anancient lamp in the grotto of the Nativity at Bethlehem.M. Jacquemart mentions and illustrates one of…
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