Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 106
what delft does inHolland, faience in France, and earthen-ware in England. All are softpottery, covered with an opaque glaze called enamel. The term wasonce applied only to the lustred wares of Spain and Italy; but now ithas come to mean such dishes—ewers, vases, etc., etc.—as were made inItaly… … Fig. C4.—DrugrjinVs Pot. be classed wholly with the useful, are not excluded; for upon some ofthese iriuch decoration was put. The word also carries a subdivisioncalled inenza-rnaiolica. 98 POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Mezza-Maiolica.—We cannot attempt to give a history of all thepotteries which sprang…
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