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Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain : with historical notices of each manufactory, preceded by an introductory essay on the vasa fictila of the Greek, Romano-British, and mediaeval eras (1886)

Chaffers, William, 1811-1892 · London : Reeves and Turner · leaf 48

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ezzo, in one of which the bowl still remained, having been fired but not removed. The plain red paterae were simply turned in the lathe, and sometimes ornamented round the flat edge with ivy leaves laid on in slip of the same colour. In the annexed woodcut will be seen the potter's name, VRSVLVS,… … actually was so. The moulds hitherto discovered appear to be for the manufacture of a coarser description of pottery, and the ornaments certainly not of so high a finish ; in fact, they are just such imitations as we should expect to find in a distant colony. Mr. C. Roach Smith is of opinion that…

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