A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors (1872)
Treadwell, John H · New York, Putnam · leaf 84
the years 1529 and 1568. It was first orig- FRANCE. 79 inated in the chateau of Oiron, by Helene de Haugest, anold lady, and after her death her son maintained it untilthe Huguenots destroyed the chateau and its contents. It is not to be supposed that the history of Frenchpottery concludes with one… … No. 17. The arts of the past may become honorable on ac-count of exceptional beauty and rarity. They may as-sume a place which modern productions cannot aspire to ;it is the pass on of marching ages which draws andfixes our attention to them as indexes of the genius ofmen before us. While we may…
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