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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 173

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e larger part of mankind are quite willing to shab a thing—to do it poorly—provided it will sell, and give them their wages. This, it seems to me, was just what made Wedgwood what he was;he could not do that. All the work of his I have seen was done aswell as it could be done. T do not mean that… … Fig. 01.—Portrait of Wedgwood. robust, manly, honorable character is to be traced. I like to tliink thatthe face here, as in many cases, is a sort of promise of the man. I cannot do better than to quote, from one of AVedgwoods cata-logues, his own words, which are better than any sermon, better…

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