Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain , with historical notices of each manufactory; over 5000 potters' marks and illustrations (1912)
Chaffers, William, 1811-1892, Litchfield, Frederick, b. 1850, Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941, Brinckmann, Justus, 1843-1915 · London : Reeves and Turner · leaf 205
ken back to France when that sale took place in 1884, the candlestick which had cost Mr. Fountaine £1000 a century ago realising the enormous sum of £3675. With these additional remarks on this celebrated fayence, the editor leaves the notice of Henri II., or Oiron, as Mr. Chaffers wrote it,… … It seems to have been the opinion of all the most able writers on the subject that it was made in Touraine. The first who promulgated it was M. Andre Pottier of Rouen, in Willemin’s Monuments Inedits , &c., 1839. He says that of the twenty-four pieces then known, about one-half came from Touraine,…
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