Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 68
g Grgeco-Phenician painted sub- jects. Many of the objects, especially thin bowls, are fire -cracked and warped out of shape in baking. , This ware wras possibly among the Phenicians an object of luxury, occupying a position not unlike that which porcelain formerly held in Europe and America in… … (Cesnola Grseco-Pheniciaii Vase. dark slate - colored, with occasional small Coll.) lumps of brick-red intermingled. The outer part to the depth of a sixteenth of an inch can be split off with the lus- tred surface, as if put on with it, but the paste is uniform throughout. The red color is good,…
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